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No 64,421 



TIMES 


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


Reserves held ready as fear of French ‘no’ to Maastricht sends markets tumbling 

Banks prepare to prop up sterling 


By robin Oakley 

IN LONDON AND 
Sean Mac Carthaigh 
IN PARIS 

THE pound fell to a new low 
against the German mark yes- 
terday after a French opinion 
poll showed for the first time a 
majority against ratification of 
the Maastricht treaty- While 
three other French polls 
showed a slim majority in fa- 
vour of the treaty on European 
union, ail four polls show an 
increase in the number of vot- 
ers who oppose the treaty. 

The central banks of the Europe- 
an Community, including the 
Bank of England and the Bundes- 


STERLING’S 

SLIDE 

Dm/£ 




May Jun Jut Aug 


bank, are this morning poised to 
defend the pound and other cur- 
rencies in the European exchange- 
rate mechanism against die ad- 


vance of the German mark. The 
poind dropped half a pfennig 
when news emerged of die first 
French poll, falling to DM2.8012, 
a whisker away from DM2.7780, 
its absolute ERM Door against the 
mark. If forced to its lower limit, 
the Bank of England, backed by 
the Bundesbank, could use billions 
of pounds of reserves to support 
sterling. 

Norman Lamont. the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, will today be 
faced with only two options to 
defend the pound; either interest 
rates must go up or there must be 
massive intervention in the mar- 
kets. The latter is more likely. 
Shares slumped in die wake of the 
French survey, losing 50 points at 
one stage but closing 30 points 
down on the day. “We are heading 


for a crisis with the Bundesbank 
versus the test,” Paul Chentow, 
head of global currency research at 
UBS Phillips & Drew, said. 

John Major and Mr Lamont, 
who met for breakfast yesterday, 
are now resigned to a series of 
upheavals for the pound in the run- 
up to the French referendum on 
September 20. Officials were keen 
to emphasise, however, that the 
prime minister and the Chancellor 
did not review ERM policy nor did 
they intend to react to market 
gyrations. 

Senior government sources were 
also reduced to having to dismiss a 
wave of rumours in the City of 
London that the Chancellor had 
resigned. It was. they said, the 
fevered and sometimes deliberate 
fabrication of “sharks’* who seek to 


manipulate the markets. Despite 
the government’s studied calm yes- 
terday, Tory MPs remain jittery 
about the Chancellors prospects of 
staving off higher interest rates. 

Dealers are nervous that if the 
French should vote against Maas- 
tricht. the pattern of European 
exchange and interest rates would 
unravel Britain would have great 
difficulty in keeping its interest 
rates as dose as they are at present 
to die much stronger German 
economy and British loans and 
mortgages would become more 
expensive. 

Hie first of die four French opin- 
ion polls on the Maastricht referen- 
dum showed that 51 per cent of 
respondents oppose die treaty and 
49 per cent would vote for the deaL 
The survey was carried out by BVA 


for Paris-Match and A2 and FR3. 
two state-owned television stations, 
among a sample of 1 .004 people. 
All the respondents, who were in- 
terviewed by telephone on Sunday 
and Monday, were over 18 and on 
the electoral register. 

The last survey carried out by 
BVA at die end of July showed that 
voters would ratify the treaty by 56 
per cent to 44 per cent. The polling 
organisation said that support for 
the treaty had fallen from a peak of 
65 per cent in mid-June. 

A second poll, to be published 
this morning by L'Express maga- 
zine. shows a 2 per cent majority 
Continued on page 14, col 8 

Holiday bargains, page 2 
Letters, page II 
Maastricht worries, page 15 


Carrington 
resigns on eve 
of Yugoslavia 
conference 

By Michael Binyonand Nicholas Wood 


ON THE eve of the London 
conference on Yugoslavia, 
Lord Carrington, the former 
Nato secretary-general who 
has headed the European 
Community peace effort for 
the past year, announced yes- 
terday that he was resigning. 

He said in a terse statement 
that he could no longer devote 
to the conference “the full- 
time effort which will obvious- 
ly be necessary and will 
extend over a considerable 
period”. He had however 
been asked, and had agreed, 
to continue to be associated 
with the conference. 

Lord Carrington had be- 
come increasingly weary with 
his fruitless shuttle diploma- 
cy. Douglas Hurd, the fbr- 

TV reporter 
wounded 

MARTIN BelL the BBCs 
war correspondent, was 
yesterday wounded dur- 
ing a mortar attack in 
Sarajevo. He immediately 
underwent surgery in a 
UN field hospital and two 
pieces of shrapnel were 
removed from his stom- 
ach and groin. He was 
then flown to Zagreb for 
further treatment was 
was last night in stable 
condition. 

More than a hundred 
journalists have been 
caught in the crossfire in 
the Yugoslav civD war. 
Twenty-seven have been 
killed. 

Photograph, page 14 

eign secretary, said yesterday 
that any settlement emerging 
from the conference and its 
follow-up in Geneva would be 
based on the groundwork 
Lord Carrington and his 
team had laid. 

Lord Owen, the farmer So- 
cial Democrat leader, was 
tipped to succeed him. The 
possibility of his appointment 
was being discussed last 
night by EC foreign ministers 
at a dinner at Lancaster 
House hosted by Mr Hurd. 

Both Downing Street and 
the Foreign Office refused to 
speculate on the nomination 
of the former Labour foreign 
secretary, who has urged mili- 
tary intervention by Nato to 
stop the fighting in the Bal- 
kans. A successor to Lord 
Carrington could come from 
any of the EC member states. 


and there are strong candi- 
dates from other countries. 

Nato failed to agree on a 
military plan to protea relief 
convoys in the former Yugo- 
slavia and the alliance said 
yesterday that it would wait 
until after the conference to 
look at the options again. A 
spokesman said after a four- 
hour meeting of Nato ambas- 
sadors that they had con- 
sidered various plans. 

The government made 
dear that Serbia would be 
made an “international pari- 
ah” if did not abandon its war 
of conquest. Downing Street 
sources underlined John Ma- 
jor's determination to put 
pressure on the Serbs after a 
meeting of ministers held 
shortly after the prime minis- 
ter's return from holiday. 

The government’s chief 
concern is that the Serbs will 
reject Mr Major's demands 
for a ceasefire and a return to 
"civilised behaviour”. The 
prime minister fears a walk- 
out and is ready to counter 
such action by pressing the 
United States. Russia and the 
EC to tighten economic sanc- 
tions against the Serbs. Mr 
Major met Andrei Kozyrev, 
the Russian foreign minister, 
to press for Moscow’s sup- 
port. The prime minister re- 
mains opposed to military 
intervention. 

The United States and Rus- 
sia agreed yesterday on the 
need to establish a perma- 
nent diplomatic mechanism 
to handle all aspects of the 
war. including sanctions 
compliance, refugees and 
peacemaking efforts. Law- 
rence Eagieburger, the acting 
American Secretary of State, 
and Mr Kozyrev forged a 
joint position in an hour-long 
meeting. 

Hie conference is the first 
held jointly between the Uni- 
ted Nations and a regional 
organisation such as the EC. 
British officials said the gov- 
ernment had done much to 
reassure Boutros Boutros 
Ghali, the secretary-general, 
on the wish to cooperate with 
the UN. Dr Boutros Ghali 
saw it as a precedent for 
similar future UN co-opera- 
tion with regional bodies. 

Sanctums bite, page 8 
Balkan debate and 
Diary, page 10 
Letters, page II 



20,000 phone 
hotline to listen 
to ‘royal’ tape 

By Alan Hamilton and Melinda Wittstock 


Accidental eavesdropper Cyril Reenan peers at the press from his home yesterday 


Hurricane forces thousands 
to evacuate New Orleans 

By David Adams in miami and Our Foreign Staff 


HUNDREDS of thousands 
of people fled their homes in 
Louisiana yesterday as Hurri- 
cane Andrew continued to 
churn across the Gulf of Mex- 
ico to New Orleans, a total of 
1.7 million people have been 
advised to leave the state and 
Mississippi 

Three hundred thousand of 
New Orleans's half million 
inhabitants have left and 
another 500.000 have aban- 
doned other lowland areas of 
Louisiana. New Orleans, 
which lies eight feet below sea 
level is protected by a series of 
levees built to contain water 
from the Mississippi and 
Lake Pontchartrain. It was 
feared that if Andrew hit the 
river, water could be forced 
into the lake and if that burst 
its banks, the city would be 
flooded. 

Traffic was jammed on the 
main road north out of the 
city across the Pontchartrain 
Bridge which crosses the the 


lake. Repairs reduced it to 
one lane. New Orleans has 
mounted a “vertical evacua- 
tion”. moving residents into 
high-rise buildings. Police 
said they saw everything from 
bread lorries loaded with fur- 
niture to vehicles filled with 
children, pets and mattresses. 

The hurricane lost almost 
no power during its 60-mile 
journey across south Miami 
and the Everglades. Soon 
after crossing into the gulf 
forecasters said Andrew's 20- 
mile- wide eye was moving 
fast at 18 mph with winds 
blowing up to 138 mph. 

A vast dean-up operation 
has begun across south Mi- 
ami where at least 12 people 
were killed and an estimated 
50.000 people left homeless. 
Police say that the final death 
toll could reach 20 and sniffer 
dogs were yesterday looking 
for bodies in the rubble of 
Florida City and Homestead, 
two of the worst affected areas 


about 20 miles south of Mi- 
ami. Officials estimate dam- 
age at $15-20 billion and are 
looking to Washington and 
the private sector Tor help. 
The local First Union bank 
has offered $1 billion in loans 
tovictims. 

More than half a million 
people were still without elec- 
tricity yesterday and authori- 
ties say it could be days, even 
weeks, before power is re- 
stored. Marty areas also lack 
water and authorities are try- 
ing to distribute litre bottles of 
drinking water. Tempera- 
tures rose to 90f yesterday 
making conditions even more 
difficult. 

A night-time curfew across 
the region was in force again 
last night to prevent looting. 
Police said they arrested 37 
people for theft on Monday 
night. 

Traffic police controlled en- 
try tn badly hit areas in 
Continued on page 14. col 6 


MORE than 20.000 people 
telephoned The Sun yester- 
day to listen to a recording of 
an alleged telephone conver- 
sation between the Princess of 
Wales and a man called 
James, listening to the entire 
saga would have put £11 on 
their telephone bill, and the 
newspaper said it would give 
the £50,000 profit from the 
hotline to charity. 

Cyril Reenan, a retired 
bank manager living in Ab- 
ingdon. Oxfordshire, was 
named yesterday as the radio 
amateur with the scanning 
device and the large aerial in 
his tree who stumbled across 
the conversation, said to have 
occurred on New Year’s eve 
1989 between the Princess at 
Sandringham and an amo- 
rous caller on a mobile tele- 
phone. Mr Reenan claimed 
yesterday that he and his wife 
had pitied up the conversa- 
tion by accident while amus- 
ing themselves with an 
electronic gadget. 

Listening to other people’s 
telephone conversations is an 
offence under the Wireless 
Telegraphy Act, 1949 and 
the Interception of Commun- 
ications Act, 1985, punish- 
able by up to two years in jail 
and a fine of up to E2.000. 
But Scotland Yard reaf-. 
finned last night that they 
had no plans to investigate 
the offence. Buckingham Pal- 
ace, although saying nothing 
officially on the matter, indi- 
cated that it had not asked 
police to become involved. 

Scanning devices that can 
pick up transmissions from 
mobile telephones can be 
bought iegalfy for less than . ■ 
£100, although it is against 
the law to listen in to the 
public telephone network or 
any transmission without the 
broadcaster's permission. 

The Press Complaints 
Commission yesterday re- 
potted a surprisingly low level 
of public opprobium at the 
intrusion into royal privacy. 
The commission said it had 
had no complaints from any- 
one involved in the alleged 
telephone tapping, and was 
therefore unlikely to take ac- 
tion. _ It had, however, re- 
ceived three written com- 
plaints and 17 telephone calls 
about The Sun's publication 
of a full transcript of the 
conversation in which the 
woman thought to be the 
princess is addressed as 
“Squidge" by the caller, 
whom The Sun promises to 
name today . < 

The commission was sur- 


prised by the few complaints 
it received after last week’s 
publication of photographs of 
the Duchess of York semi- 
naked. while on holiday with 
her financial adviser. By yes- 
terday. it had received 51 
written complaints. 

The BBC. meanwhile, an- 
nounced plans to broadcast a 
fictional account of the disin- 
tegration of the royal family 
late next year. The £2 million 
four-part dramatisation is 
based on a novel by Miritael 
Dobbs, whose political thrill- 
er House Of Cards about die 
toppling of a prime minister 
was shown the week Marga- 
ret Thatcher was ousted. 

Set in 1998. the drama will 
revolve around a king who 
has come to the throne late in 
life, a prime minister who 
took over in mid-term and 
won his first election with a 
reduced majority, and a prin- 
cess ostracised by the family 
after being photographed on 
holiday with another man. 

The BBC. which yesterday 
denied that its timing was in 
any way deliberate, has hired 
Andrew Davies, the award- 
winning scriptwriter, to 
adapt Mr Dobbs’s book. To 
Play The King. Filming will 
begin early next year. In To 
Continued on page 14, col 1 

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Diary, page 10 


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Waqar Younts: defies 
laws of aerodynamics 


BY ALAN HAMILTON 

SCIENTISTS at the University of Hert- 
fordshire have set up a research project 
to crack the code of an enemy secret 
weapon that has inflicted great damage 
on England. Using computers, wind 
tunnels, die laws of aerodynamics and a 
large number of cricket balls, they will 
attempt to discover exactly how the 
Pakistani bowlers Waqar Younis and 
Wasim Akram achieve their devastating 
reverse swing. 

Final-year students in aerospace engi- 
neering at the university, formerly Hat- 
field Polytechnic, will be set to work on 
the project when they return for die new 
term in October. They hope to have an 
answer by May. in good time for next 
year’s first-class season. 

Andrew Lewis, a lecturer more used io 
teaching the principles of aircraft per- 
formance and stability, derided to seek 
a scientific explanation after his depart- 


ment had received calls from newspa- 
pers wanting to know how Waqar and 
Wasim achieved such odd trajectories 
with the baH “We tried to get the 
answer from the horse's mouth, saying 
we were engaged in serious research, 
but the Pakistani officials gave us the 
brush-off; there is a bit of an atmo- 
sphere at the moment” Mr Lewis said 
yesterday. 

“A normal qutswing bowler holds die 
polished side to the right and angles 
the seam towards the slips. The net 
effect is to make the ball move away 
from the batsman. Waqar keeps the 
polished side to the right but the ball 
swings in to the batsman” Mr Lewis 
said. “1 cannot find a ready explanation 
for this; he must angle the seam towards 
fine leg, like an inswing bowler, but an 
inswing bowler keeps the polished side 
to the left One ought to cancel the other 
out but it doesn't” 

Research will not be easy. According 


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a ball in the wind tunnel wfll be very 
small and difficult to measure, and 
whatever the ban is mounted on may 
fadsify the results. 

Some research has already been done 
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wisdom states that a new ball swings 
more than an old because of its more 
pro n o un ced seam, a taw entirely ig- 
nored by Waqar, who barely swin^ the 
new ball at alL 

Cricket balls, according to Mr Lewis, 
are fickle things, and how they behave is 
only partially understood. There is. for 
example, no explanation of why they 
swing more under dandy sides than in 
the sun. Mr Lewis wifi be happy to make 
his findings known to the England team 
next year, but has a suspicion that they 
wifi not do diem much good. 

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


IRA blamed 
for firebomb 
attacks on 
show castle 


By Craig Seton 


THE IRA was thought yesier- 
day to have been responsible 
for three firebomb attacks 
that damaged property worth 
up to £250,000 at a military 
museum at Shrewsbury Cas- 
tle. Shropshire, and small 
fires in two shops in the town. 

The centre of Shrewsbury 
was sealed of! early yesterday 
when about 50 fire officers 
were called to deal with a 
blaze at the castle, which 
houses a collection of the 
King's Shropshire Light In- 
fantry. the Shropshire Yeo- 
manry and the Shropshire 
Horse Artillery. It was 
thought later that two de- 
vices. one explosive and one 
incendiary, may have gone 
off on two floors. 

Another was believed to 
have been activated by a 
sprinkler device at the Staks 
soft furnishings store in the 
town's Charles Darwin shop- 
ping centre. Minor charring 
was later discovered at 
Wades, a furniture shop in 
the same complex. 

No warning was given and 


Gas prices 
to be 
cut again 

By George Sivell 


BRITISH Gas is to cut prices 
to domestic and small busi- 
ness customers by 2 per cent 
from October. The reduction 
is on top of the 3 per cent cut 
that came into effect at the 
beginning of last month. 

The combined savings 
should cut the bill for a typical 
three-bedroom semi-deta- 
ched house by about £27 a 
year and reduce British Gas 
income fay about £300 million 
a year. Cedric Brown, the 
chief executive, said prices 
were being cut because Brit- 
ish Gas' had based rates on 
forecasts that inflation would 
be running at 3.9 per cent by 
the year's end. It is now ex- 
pected to be nearer 3 percent. 

The cut came as British 
Gas declared an effective divi- 
dend increase for the first half 
of 1992 but a dip into the red 
for the second quarter. From 
April to June, British Gas lost 
£17 million before tax against 
a £247 million profit in the 
same quarter last year. For 
the half year, profits dipped 
from £1.307 million to £915 
million before tax. 


Gas in the red. page 15 
Business Comment, page 19 


no group had claimed re- 
sponsibility for the incidents 
by last night, but Inspector 
Alan Howls of West Mercia 
police said terrorists were 
thought to have carried them 
oul Derek Conway, the MP 
for Shrewsbury and Aicham. 
said it was "more than likely'* 
that it was the work of the 
IRA. 

Geoffrey Parfitt. curator of 
the Shropshire Regimental 
Museum at the castle, said 
the fire and possible explo- 
sion there were a disaster. He 
estimated the cost of repairs 
at £250.000 and said many 
relics were irreplaceable. 

Exhibits of the King's 
Shropshire Light Infantry 
and Shropshire Yeomanry 
had been worst affected. 
Showcases and windows had 
been shattered and there was 
extensive smoke damage. 
David Thursfield. an assis- 
tant chief constable of West 
Mercia, said he had been in 
touch with Commander 
George Churchill-Coleman, 
head of New Scotland Yard’s 
anti- terrorist squad. Experts 
were examining the three 
scenes to try to piece together 
evidence of what had 
happened. 

He said it was reasonable to 
assume the devices at the 
three sites had been planted 
by the same person or group 
and added: “No warnings 
were given and to date no 
organisation has claimed 
responsibility." 

Police searched for other 
devices in the town through- 
out the morning and ap- 
pealed for witnesses. Three 
years ago a series of bombs 
destroyed an accommodation 
block at Tern HQJ barracks, 
near Shrewsbury, shortly 
after it was evacuated by 
members of the Parachute 
Regiment. The IRA later 
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Days of glory: tugs bringing the Queen Mary to bet berth at Southampton in 1965 

Queen Mary’s home port hopes again SH 


by Michael Hors nell and ben Macintyre . 


A GOLD sovereign was of- 
fered yesterday to save the 
Queen Mary from the rocks 
and bring her home to South- 
ampton from where she 
sailed on her maiden transat- 
lantic vqyage to New York in 
1 93 6. But fetching home the 
rusting 8 1 .23 7 ton liner, 
which won the Blue Riband 
in 1 938 for the fastest Atlan- 
tic crossing, will cost an extra 
£ 1 5 million including a refit, 
towing fees and dockside in- 
frastructure at 

Southampton. 

The three-funnelled liner, 
launched in a golden era 
when even third-class pas- 
sengers had a choice of five 
hors if oeuvres for dinner, is 
languishing as a loss-making 


tourist attraction at Long 
Beach awaiting the scrap- 
merchants now that the Walt 
Disney Corporation has can- 
celled its lease on her from 
the Californian city. 

The British shipping com- 
pany Sea Containers made 
the offer through its wholly- 
owned subsidiary RMS 
Queen Maty Project with the 
backing of the city of South- 
ampton. enclosing a 
prerequired £50.000 deposit 
which may or may not be 
refunded if its bid is 
accepted. 

The cost of bringing her 
back would have to be met by 
grants from heritage bodies, 
the public and possibly the 
government. Sea Containers 


would manage the ship as an 
hotel and include a transat- 
lantic liners’ museum. 

Steve Harris, spokesman 
for Sea Containers, said: 
"The one sovereign offer is a 
token amount The real cost 
will be in bringing her home. 
But it will be a marvellous 
occasion when she finally 
sails up Southampton Water 
for the first time in nearly 30 
years." 

David Abraham, deputy 
leader of the Conservative 
group on Southampton city 
council, said: “We are saying 
to Long Beach 'Make the 
ship a gift to us so we can 
bring her home' and we are 
looking at ways of funding 
the project in order to get her 


here." 

Walt Disney has already 
spent £15 million on repairs 
and has decided to pullout of 
its lease at the end of this 
year after losing more than 
$ 1 milli on a month. The city 
of Long Beach says a' final 
decision on' the fete of foe 
ship will not be made until 
next month. 

Several groups, including 
Japanese business concerns 
and a Mississippi gambling 
tycoon, are believed to have 
made offers for file 1,0 1 S ft 
liner, whose engines and 
boilers have been removed, 
but the city fathers of Long 
Beach have said they wfll not 
necessarily seD to the highest 
bidder. 


A cancer patient has had £46.000 stolen, from his private 
bank accounts while in the care of Gn/s Hospital Trust in 
London. The trust has told Remo Gaida, 79. that it mil 
reimburse him if be fails to recover bis money through the 
courts. Mr Gaida discovered that his savings had been 
taken while he was a resident of Becket House nursing 
home in New Cross, southeast London, part of the Guy's 
trust. He has been a resident there for five years. Police 
enquiries suggest that the money was' taken by forged 
correspondence with Mr Gaida* s bank. An employee at the 
nursing home, suspended after the theft was discovered 
and wanted for questioning by police, is believed. to be 
abroad. Police have interviewed another person, not 
employed by the hospital, about the missing money. A tnist 
spokeswoman said that the trust had no legal responsibility 
for Mr Gaida’s losses but felt it had a moral responsibility 
to him "and washes to ensure be doesn't suffer financial 
loss through this theft while he was in our care". 

Women’s clinic saved 

A clinic in west London that has helped thousands of 
women to overcome problems associated with the 
menopause has been saved from imminent closure. The 
dink; at the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, was 
under threat of closure after the drag company that 
provided funding decided to puh out. The dinic, which has 
treated between 30.000 and 40.000 women over the past 
12 years, will now be funded by the Hammersmith and 
Queen Charlotte’s Special Health Authority. Keith Ed- 
munds. consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist; said 
that the clinic was set up before the benefits of hormone 
replacement therapy were -widely known. Advances in 
treatment for menopausal problems had increased the 
number of women seeking help for distressing symptoms. 

Garden swallowed up 

A family was in shock yesterday after part of their garden 
disappeared down an old mineshaft in Cornwall- A crater. 
200ft deep and I5ft long, opened up in seconds at the back 
of the Wakem family’s home in Gunnislake. They learnt 
about the collapse when their papetfroy ran into the house 
shouting that the garden lad disappeared. Now the 
Wakems, who have three children, aged seven, six and 

Likely to disappear. Their detachedhome is 60 yardsfrom 
where a 75ft-deep crater swallowed up a whole garden two 
months ago. Alyson Wakem, 34, who built the nouse with 
her husband 11 years ago, said: "We knew the whole area 
was riddled with mineshafts but we assumed they we re safe 
as there were no restrictions on where we built our house." 


Dollar lifts travel trade 


BRITAIN’S tour operators 
could hardly contain their de- 
light when, on July 21, the 
dollar was being traded at 
1.918 to the pound. On that 
day exchange rates are effect- 
ively frozen throughout the 
travel industry to enable next 
year’s brochure prices to be 
fixed- At 1.918 the dollar was 
not only 12 per cent cheaper 
than on the same day last 
year, but virtually guaranteed 
thai 1993 holidays in Florida 
and other American destina- 
tions could be offered for sale 
at well below this year’s bro- 
chure prices, with a good 


Harvey Elliott 
reports on how the 
sliding dollar in 
July brought 
benefits to the UK 
travel industry 

profit into the bargain. 

Within days of the “agreed 
costing date", tour operators 
had bought forward almost 
£1 billion worth of dollars 
with which to buy aviation 
fuel, hotel rooms and car hire 
in the USA throughout next 
summer. Because banks nat- 



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urally charge a commission 
and never sell long-term mon- 
ey at the “spot” price, they 
could not quite achieve the 
1.918 figure. 

Many, however, were able 
to sign agreements to buy 
dollars at the rate of 1.85 to 
the pound. That exchange 
rate is now fixed through to 
next summer, enabling cuts 
of up to 10 per cent to be 
made on holidays in the Uni- 
ted States next year com- 
pared with this year’s lull 
brochure price. 

American tourist officials, 
who have seen the number of 
British visitors of all kinds go 
up from 861,000 in 1985 to 
2.45 million in 1991, predict 
that there wfll be another 7 
per cent increase by the end of 
this year and a further 6 per 
cent rise next. 

This year, the number of 
charter aircraft crossing the 
Atlantic increased dramati- 
cally and official brochure 
prices came tumbling down 
for last-minute buyers as tour 
operators and airlines battled 
to sell them at any price. 

A Virgin fly-drive holiday to 
Boston, for example, which 
appeared in the brochure at 
£359 per person was still 
being sold ten days ago for 
£249 and some self-catering 
packages could be picked up 
for less than £100 at the 
height of the discount war in 
June. 

Thomson, the market lead- 
er. hopes that that will not be 
repeated and is adding only 
5.000 additional places on its 
Florida programme next 
year. Prices are on average 8 
per cent less than they were 
last year. 

Bank action, page 1 
Leading article, page II 



Stolen: the missing casket bears the Media arms 

£200,000 casket 
stolen from V&A 

By Sarah Jane Checkiand 
SALEROOM CORRESPONDENT 


A SEVENTEENTH century 
Florentine casket worth 
£200.000 was stolen from the 
Victoria and Albert museum 
in Kensington during open- 
ing hours on Sunday. Cir- 
cumstances were so similar to 
those surrounding a theft last 
November that the V&A has 
warned other museums that a 
gang could be operating. 

Jim Close, the museum’s 
assistant director, declined to 
describe how the casket was 
taken but said: “The pattern 
suggested that it was the 
same people" 


A patrolling warder noticed 
at 4.40 pm that the lOins 
high casket had disappeared 
from its case. In the previous 
incident, also in a gallery 
dose to the museum's Exhibi- 
tion Road entrance, a 
£100,000 baroque aliarpiece 
was tom apart when thieves 
were disturbed, but following 
publicity it was recovered. 

The missing casket bears 
the Medici arms. Grand Du- 
cal crown and Florentine lily 
on the domed lid. as well as 
panels containing the figures 
of Mars and Minerva. 


Jackson leaves with a glow 


MICHAEL Jackson left Brit- 
ain yesterday after a host of 
children spoke glowingly of 
how he set aside three hours 
to listen to their feelings on 
the world's problems. 

The 84 children from all 
over Europe spelled out their 
views at a meeting at Regent’s 
College. London, on subjects 
chat induded racism, the en- 
vironment. famine, and Aids. 

A girl of 12 was allowed the 
rare privilege of photo- 
graphing the singer. But 
Jemma Tomlin, from Brom- 
ley', Kent, learnt an early les- 
son about dealing with a 
superstar not a photo could 
be released without Jackson's 
approval and just before leav- 


BY Nicholas Watt 

ing yesterday he allowed only 
two shots to be published. 
The youngsters met to help 
Jackson draw up a charter for 
his newly launched Heal the 
World Foundation, for which 
the singer has set aside mil- 
lions of dollars. 

Mohammed Ahmed. 16. 
from Brixton, south London, 
chose to talk about racism 
because he said that a friend 
was murdered in a racially 
motivated attack. “When I 
told Michael Jackson what 
had happened he was 
touched and said he was sor- 
ry. He cared. I never thought 
someone as rich as him would 
take that kind of interest" 

At the end of the meeting 


Jackson made a speech. Cotta 
Ljungquist 16, from Gothen- 
burg, Sweden, said: “He had 
a sore throat but still man- 
aged to say that he loved us 
all. He said that as long as he 
lives he win always help out 
children." 


( CORRECTION 1 

In a table in a report on house 
repossessions (August 24) the 
percentage change in orders 
made for West Yorkshire 
should have been -I. and the 
percentage change in suspen- 
sions for Devon and Leices- 
tershire should have been *! 
and fill respectively. 


Ford to power Jaguars 

Ford is to build the next generation of engines that mil 
power Jaguar care, it was announced yesterday. Jaguar has 
ruled out bunding engines for cars due on the market at the 
end of the century at its own Radford works in Coventry 
and has opted for the £100 million investment in Ford's 
engine works at Bridgend. South Wales. Radford has been 
making engines for Coventry Jaguars for 40 years, with the 
Y6 ana VI2 engines achieving worldwide feme for their 
smoothness and power. The new four-litre V8 AJ26 will go 
into production in .1996 and mfi be the first big project 
Ford has undertaken for Jaguar since buying the company 
for £1.6 billion in 1989. As many as 50,000 engines a year 
will be made. . putting in doubt engine production at 
Radford, although it may continue towake V12 engines. 

Firemen hit at EC rule 

Chief fire officers have warned the government that 
European Community fire regulations threaten to increase 
delays in issuing fire certificates and safety inspections. 
The regulations propose to extend fire safety precautions to 
small offices, shops, factories and meeting places. The fire 
authority, rather than the local authority, becomes the 
enforcement agency. Fire chiefs say that enforcing the 
regulations could cost an additional £13 million and that, 
without extra resources, the fire service will face 
increasingly difficulty in meeting its statutory obligations. 
Two reports yesterday criticised the Isle of Wight and 
Surrey tire services for failing to meet targets for safety 
inspections and for their growing backlog in handling 
applications for fire certificates. 

Tinsley leads draughts 

Dr Marion Tinsley has taken the lead in the world draughts 
championship against his computerised challenger, win- 
ning the twenty-fifth of their 40 scheduled games with the 
Edinburgh Cross opening (Ray Keene writes). Chinook, the 
Canadian computer program, capitulated a her 26 moves of 
the game, at London’s Park Lane faoteL Draughts and 
computer experts say that Dr Tinsley. 65. of Florida, who 
has held the world draughts title for 38 years, now appears 
to be mastering the machine, which can calculate three 
million moves a minute. The score is three wins for Dr 
Tinsley, two to Chinook and 21 draws. By draughts 
standards, this is a bloodthirsty encounter. In 1928, the 
match in New York between Samuel Gonotsky and M ichael 
Lieber ended with 40 draws and no wins. 

Police hunt rapist 

Police have issued an art- 
ist’s impression, right, of a 
man believed to' have car- 
ried out two rapes, two 
attempted rapes and a seri- 
ous sexual assault on 
women in south London. 

He is white, aged 19-30, 
between 5ft 7in and 5ft 9in, 
with a pale complexion and 
brown, lank hair. He often 
wears a black leather 
jacket, white T-shirt and 
baggy blue jeans, in one 
attack a mother was raped 
in front of her two-year-old 
child. ■ 

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HOME NEWS 3 



By Sara McConnell 


ABOUT UOO holders of. 
with-profits insurance bonds 
from Equity & Law and 
London and Manc hester As- 
surance will be readying let-. 
ters from the companies in the 
next few weeks asking them if 
they fully understood the risks 
of the policy they bought In 
some cases, people could get 
their money hark 

This follows a six-month 
investigation by the Life Assur- 
ance and Unit Trust Regular . 
toiy Organisation (Ihutro) 
into the marketing of 
bands. This week it emerged 
that 1 1 other companies have : 
also been asked to withdraw 
one or more items from their . 
range of marketing materiaL 

Hie regulator was con- 
cerned that companies and 
their agents were misleading 
people into thinking that the 
bonds worked like building 
society accounts. In feet -foe 
bonds are insurance policies 
and if investors tzy to cash 
them early they win not get 
back all the money they put m. . 
In the small prim of the 
marketing brochure, com- .. 
parties ate) reserve the right to _ 
apply what they call a “market 
value adjuster" that afiovvs 
them to reduce the payout if 
the stock market is not per- 
forming. 

About £1 blllion.has so far .. 
been invested in such bonds. 
Part of the reason for. their ; 
popularity is because salesmen 
earn a high commission for 
selling the polides. They 
would not get any aHrim&ion 
for recommending that some- 
one keep their money in the 
building society. 

John Cummings, deputy 
managing director of London 
and Manchester Assurance, 
said that the company would 
be writing to 1,000 investors 
in two to three weeks* time: He 
said: “Lautro wanted. move- 
information on the market 
value adjuster as we had said 
that in certain drozmstances 
we would apply the adjuster. It 
also asked for clarification bn. 



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Walker questioned 
way salesmen are paid 


idea behind the illustration 
was that a with-profits bond 
could help to smooth out die 
peaks and troughs . of the 
stockmaricet Mr Kerr said: 
“Lautro.tbought .the presenta- 
tion of the whole-item detract- 
ed from the content" The 300 
p&kyhcJdeis would be receiv- 
ing a letter .io the . next lew 
days, he said. He added that 
compensation for in ves to rs 
could not bernled out burthat 
it would ■ take cases 
individually. 

Julia IJeschtng, Lautro's 
.chief policy officer, said that 
lautro would check in Octo- 


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Haiti work, gopd food and superb beer 
brought Camra’s top award to".. 
Wolverhampton, Craig Seton writes 


A DINGY Wctiverharnfpton 
back street lined with .old 
^ ; factmy buildings and qver- 
. looked by a viaduct carrying a 

main railway fine is the un- 
~c promising venue of the best- 
pub in Britain, acclaimed 
today by the* Campaign for 
Real Ale (Camia). 

v" A few years ago the Great 

l Western in Sun Street was 
considered to be on its last 
legs. Built in the 1850s and 
located in a rundown industri- 
al area near Wolverhampton 
town centre it was out of place 
and out of time five years ago 
when Holdens, a small Black 
Country brewery, "took it oybr 
from one of the country's 
largest brewing companies. 



Top schools 
A-ievel 
league in 
The Times 


THE first ranking of A-4evel 
results ' to compare state 
and • independent schools 
wiD appear in The Times on 
Saturday. Al least 250 lead- 
ing schools will be named in 
a special feature analysing 
the performance of the two 
sectors, v 

This year's improved per- 
formance at A4evd. has 
produced marked fluctua- 
tions in the positions of 
state schools at the top. of 
the league tables. Indepen- 
dent schools are expected 

show similar movement 

The-featurewill chart the 
leading independent 
schools’ results over - the 
past five, yeaii. The result 
will be the rttost compre- 
hensive picture yet of their 
AJereJ paformance,ayurd- 
stick against which others 
can be judged.. * ..r 


Now barristeis and 
frtmtheneaifry Wc 
ton Crown Court, office — _ 
and fbraKhy workers are 
among loyal customers served 
by Xeitb and JoseWalkcr, 
both 53, the tenants. . / 

"The Great Weston is the 
first public house in the West 
Midlands to win Camra’S'pub 
of the year "award and n is 
prated for its outstanding 
beet supeibfood and friendly 
bar staff. It serves fbtxr real ales 
and no item on its straightfor- 
ward food menu costy .more 
4 han £230- Homemade steak 
and'-kidney pie, giant hot pork 
and beef cobs and' a local 
speciality, a giuti of grey 
mushy peas -and bacon, cost- 
ing only 7 Op, are aB :- a full 
meaL Furnishings aresimpte. 

the noils are lined ivith raff* 

way memorabilia and there is 
no juke bco. 

Keith' Walker '.saved his" 

lunchtime customers yester- 


and tie wiuie his wife -was in 
charge, of kitchen staff iridud- 
ingJber daughter and .sister. It 
b fodr third, tenancy. and 
when-foey took it" ; over th^r 
wwtid get-up at: 530am. to 
prepare dieap but compre- 
hensive breakfasts to. put h:on 
die map- ■ ■ , • 

Mrs: Walker sai* “It wasa 
down-and-out pub when, w 
.took.it over, a real divtvbut it 
WBS. a .dtaHenge. I drink- we 


for money. ,Tb^ want, good 
food and beer. It- just took off.” 

Mr '; Walker .' said : that 
because of its location, the pub 
bad : no n^ural -diemde and 
they had to anraet customezs 
byword of moulii- The Black 
. Country was a gritty industrial 
area and' people did not want 
anything tM tey. ■ 

Dawd Fiya; an official of 
Camra's . West- 1 - Midlands 
branch, s^dt “This just shows 
what cari be done with a little 
had work, applfeatU 
lent beer, good food and good 
management His a magnifi- 
;bentifob. M ■ • ’■ . ' -- 


policy with 
accounts." 
Customers cquld comaci die 
company if they wanted more 
information. Mr Cummings 
said The bonds had been sou 
by the epngjanaft jcnro tiod 

agpiiw anrl 

Duncan Korti. , Equity &- 
Law's daef actuary, aid that 
Lautro bad “taken, eaceptioc 
laihe style and fitonar of a 
maDshca; for the dmt 
showed investors rirfing a 
fairgrtnmd rofiercoaster. The 


1 her that its instructions had. 

: been tarried, out. .’ 

□ Yesterdays more against 
misieading insurance adver- 
ting for smgle premnurn 
irsurantc bonds shows how 
the industry is oomiag under 
btoteasmg pressure to curb 
practices thatcost p 6 &tyhdd- 
ere mffikms'of pounds a year 
(lihdsayCodc writes}. 

Also untter scratirty are the 
severe penalties faced fay di- 
whs mw surrender peuides 
before' maturity, . and.Lautro 
chief executive Kit Jebens is 
considering action against 

- companies with high surren- 
der records, indudinjgxnakmg 
them bear metie of the oast of 
early surrenders, r:..-. 

The Office of Fair Trading, 
winch has long campaigned 
forfiAdiadosureaf aH chazges 
beSme custoroossgnfor poli- 
cies, is how conatiting die 
industry and- consumer 
gnxqrs before recommending 
stifler regulations totlieChai!- 
exfior of foe exchequer. Inter- 
ested parties •• : haw until : 
September 4 to make their 
views known. ■ 

The National Consumer 
Council estimates' that £200 
miffion a year is lost through 

- the early surrender of endow- 
ment mortgages had most 
insurance ioothpanies admit 
that less than half the policies 
they sell reach maturity. . 

This is largdy because the 
main thrust is on selling 25- 
year endowments to young 
people who do not understand 
the losses flieywfll incur if they 
cash in eaxty. Even those who 
stay the course until the twen- 
ty-fourth year can lose thou- 
sands of pounds fry cashing in 
a year early, forfeiting thdr 
terminal bonus. 

“We found that endo w ment 
mortgages were being sold' to 
those with the lowest level of 
financial sophstication on the 
recommendation of foe build- 
ing society or bank instead of 
repayment mortgages," said 
an NCC spokeswoman. “They 
are not necessarily foe bat 
deaL for peopie straggling, to 
buy properties.’* 

Sir David Walker, Mien 
chairman of foe Securities and 
Inve sunems Bp anL ' s a g g e sted 
that foe industry should look 
again at the way it pays r 
salesmen. If they were. j?a?,d. . 
over the full term of foe p&uy 
they might make sure tiuy 
ohty sold pdicKS that were 
likdy to mature, he argued. . 


Leading artide, page 1 1 


Courses at 
home for 


ex-miners 


By Matthew d’Ancona 

EDUCATION 

CORRESPONDENT 


ONCE foe heart of Welsh 
milling and union militan- 
cy, the valleys ■ of South 
Wales wffl become an im- 
promptu seat of learning 
next year under {dans to set 
up a community university 
to enable jobless miners to 
take degree courses while 
Irving at home. 

- University College, Swan- 
sea, plans to offer 40 places 
to; 5 tudepts in degree sub- 
jects such as ooimannity 
development, community 
enterprise, modern "Welsh 
and European ' . studies, 
backed up. by bmsaxy 
funds. A £20,000 grant 
from the Universities Fund- 
ing Council will allow foe 
new Community University 
for the VaHeys. modelled on 
American community cot- 
leges. to provide lectures., 
libraries mid crtche facili- 
ties -doseto foe homes of 
the tong^erm unemployed. 

. British Coal last wedt 
-aibtoimcedL foe closure of 
two pits and. the loss of 
hearty 500 jobs in. file Soufo 
Wales ' mmefielA leaving 
only one pittonpfoying 370 
men in an area that once 
gave work to more than 
100,000. Dons at Swansea 
hope foe new initiative vriti 
be a fiffip to enterp rise in 
deprived communities. 

HyweG FTOnas, dnwto' 
of adufi ton tinning educa- 
tion at Swansea, said foal 
foe new community univer- 
sity would be a catalyst for 
gnrrilar sdietDCS in dfsad- 
vatntaged areas. People 
who -were unempipyed or 
had domestic responsibil- 
ities could pursue part-time 
or full-time courses. 7 

■■ David Thomas, a retired 
miner from West Glamor- 
gan who was badly hurt in 
an underground accident in 
-1985, raid he would now be 
able to work from home 
’ “and study a coupk of 
times a^wedc iii a sub|ect 
Bke pditics or history". 



Unwelcome whelk: Becky Oakley from the Sea life Centre in Portsmouth with one of the Japanese invaders 


Giant whelks threaten British oysters 


By Michael McCarthy. 

ENVIRONMENT - 

correspondent 


AN invasion of giant Japanese 
whelks is threatening to wredt 
British oyster and mussel 
beds. The predatory whelks, 
up.to ten times the size of .the 
tamer British whelk, have 
been found on the North Sea 
bed, south of Dogger Bank, 
.about 20 miles out Marine. 


scientists fear that fishermen 
could - inadvertently bring 
them in to inshore waters. 

The Thomas* rapa whelks 
(Ropo/ia venosa) have already 
desiipyed commercial shell- 
fish populations in the Black 
. Sea, where the species was 
accidentally introduced from 
Japan. The whelks were 
found in a colony by crab ' 
fishermen. They may "have 
been brought as eggs on foe 


hull of a ship from the Black 
Sea. David Caswell, from 
Grimsby, pulled up nearly 60 
in a single lohster pot and 
gave one to the Sea Life 
Centre, an aquarium in his 
home town of Portsmouth. 

Jan Light, of foe Concho- 
logical Society of Britain and 
Ireland, said: “They had never 
been seen in British waters 
before. They breed- like -wild- 
fire and feed voraciously on 


other shellfish." David 
HeppelL curator of molluscs at 
the Rqyal Museum of Scot- 
land in Edinburgh, said: 
“Fishermen must be alerted 
because if they throw them 
overboard within a mile of foe 
shore it could have dire conse- 
quences for inshore 
shdlfisheries." 

The Ministry of Agricul- 
ture. Fisheries and Food said 
it was investigating. 


Farmers 
unite 
to repel 
hippies 


Jalopies are no 
match for the 
Bodmin Moor 
tractors, writes 
Un Jenkins 


WITH foe quiet conspiracy of 
the smugglers of Daphne Du 
Marnier's Jamaica Inn, a 
group of Cornish farmers have 
united to repel “New Age” 
travellers intent on holding a 
festival on Bodmin Moor over 
foe bank holiday weekend. 

The residents of 22 scat- 
tered farms have mounted 24- 
hour patrols to prevent a 
repeat of last year's White 
Goddess festival, when more 
than 5,000 travellers invaded 
Davidstow moor for two 
weeks. Nearly 50 sheep were 
killed by dogs and the land 
was left in such a state that the 
local environmental health de- 
partment deemed h too con- 
taminated for use. 

The main influx of travellers 
is expected to begin today and 
the locals, most of whom have 
commoners' rights on foe 
privately owned moor, have 
already seen off several. Vans 
and cars have been towed 
back on to the public highway 
after early arrivals declined to 
move voluntarily. 

Julie Dowion. secretary of 
the Davidstow Commoners' 
Association, said: “We have 
taken legal advice and we are 
entitled to remove trespassers. 
If they fafl to comply with our 
request to leave, then we can 
use reasonable and minimal 
force.’* Piffling vehicles off the 
moor by tractor complied with 
foe law. “We are absolutely 
determined there wiD be no 
festival. Last year was a 
nightmare." 

Devon and Cornwall police 
have been following foe move- 
ment of travellers for some 
weeks, after being taken by 
surprise last year when the 
usually small festival bal- 
looned. All leave has been 
cancelled from today and 
there are contingency plans to 
dose roads. 

Thousands of travellers are 
now scattered over southern 
England after Sussex police 
fofled attempts to hold a 
festival at Cissbuiy Ring, near 
Worthing, last week. 


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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


Architect of education reforms warns against ‘untrustworthy 5 results for science pupils 


Ignore curriculum 
tests, parents told 


IEMSOM 


By Nigel Hawkes 

SCIENCE EDITOR 

THE national curriculum is 
failin g children, making im- 
possible demands on teachers 
and misleading parents, the 
annual meeting of the British 
Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science was told 
yesterday. 

Paul Blade, professor of 
science education at King's 
College London, and one of 
the architects of the govern- 
ment’s educational reforms, 
said that teachers, pupils and 
parents would be well advised 
to ignore the results of science 
attainment tests for 14-year- 
olds under the national curric- 
ulum lecause they were 
bound to be untrustworthy. 

Professor Jim Campbell, of 
Warwick University, said that 
the introduction of the nat- 
ional curriculum into primary 
schools had left teachers on a 
treadmill, working harder 
and achieving less. 

Class teachers had to be- 
come "the primary school 
equivalent of Einstein, Ma- 
dame Curie and Linford 
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order to satisfy the demands 
of the national curriculum. 
The intellectual demands 
made of teachers could be 
realised "only by renaissance 
men and women", of whom 
there were few in the primary 
teaching force, he said. 

Professor Black, who 
chaired the committee in 
1 988 that recommended how 
children should be tested, said 
that the government had 
abandoned most of the princi- 
ples embodied in his report 
These changes bad not been 
grounded in evidence, but 
based on prejudice and "are 
set fair to do serious harm to 
children's education”. 

The kind of standardised 
tests now envisaged were sim- 
ilar to those that had been 
used for many years in the 
United States, but which were 
now being abandoned there. 
Far horn fitting naturally into 
classroom practice, they en- 


Experts dash over 
Britain’s decline 


Does it matter when other nations 
take up science and push us down 
the league? Nigel Hawkes reports 


IS SCIENCE in Britain in 
decline? Does it matter? Yes- 
terday two of the country’s 
leading experts ' on science 
polity dashed at the annual 
meeting in Southampton. 

Ben Martin, of the Science 
Polity Research Unit at Sus- 
sex University, said evidence 
dearly showed that British 
science was slipping behind 
that of other countries. Quot- 
ing evidence of the number of 
scientific papers published 
and bow often each one was 
cited by other scientists. Dr 
Martin said that while British 
science had grown it had done 
so less quickly than that of 
other nations. 

Dr Martin’s leading critic. 
Terence Kealey of Cambridge 
University, said that a relative 
decline merely meant that 
more countries were now 
working at science, which 
should be welcomed. “In the 
nineteenth century only three 
countries had ary real science 
— Britain, France and Ger- 
many. British science was 
then probably a third of world 
science. Now it is a tenth, but 
that is a result of many other 
countries, inducting foe US 
and Japan, joining in,” he 
said. 

“Britain still does ten per 
cent of world science with only 
one per cent of the world's 
population and so long as 
science continues to grow 
absolutely, relative decline is 
inevitable and even 
desizaMe.” 

Dr Kealey then suggested 
that government support for 
science should be reduced. 
Since it is an aitide of faith at 


the conference that the more 
that is spent the better, this 
was a revolutionary notion. 
He said that Britain bad been 
in economic dedine for two to 
force decades, even though it 
was a major sdence nation. 
This was also true of the US. 
Australia and New Zealand. 
Japan, with no great govern- 
ment funding of civil research 
and development had flour- 
ished. When governments 
spent more on science, indus- 
try spent less and foe economy 
performed worse, he said. 

The US government had 
spent almost nothing on sci- 
ence before the second world 

war. although its economy 
grew rapidly. Since American 
science spending burgeoned, 
economic growth had contin- 
ued at the same rate, although 
more recently it had faltered. 

Dr Martin conceded that 
both Switzerland and Japan, 
two highly successful econo- 
mies with low government 
sdence spending, appeared to 
support Dr Kealey’s thesis — 
but said both were untypical 
and not to be taken as a 
modeL He called fora govern- 
ment policy of concentration 
on strategic areas of sdence 
and said he hoped that the 
new Office of Sdence and 
Technology would provide 
this. 

For Dr Kealey this was all 
too familiar. The simple fact 

was. he said, that public 
funding of dvfl research and 
development damaged sd- 
ence because it displaced 
more private money than it 
fed in. “You can have too 
much sdence." be said. 


couraged teachers to drill 
pupils to pass the tests. 

The results could not possi- 
bly be reliable; because the 
tests would be too shot! At 1 4. 
for example, pupils wiB face a 
three-bour test in sdence to 
see if they meet three “attain- 
ment targets". That meant 
one hour per target. 

“From all foe evidence that 
I know, the result of one hour 
of testing on sdence perfor- 
mance will be untrustworthy.” 
he said. “To cover the ground, 
the test win be bound to adopt 
those narrow forms of test 
items which foe USA authori- 
ties are abandoning after 
decades of experience with 
them. Teachers, pupils and 
parents would be wefl advised 
to ignore foe results.” 

The Education Reform Act 
had become an instrumentfor 
direct government control in 
which foe opinions of minis- 
ters were insulated from pro- 
fessional opinion and expert- 
ise. Professor Black said. “As 
an academic researcher who 
saw foe act as a force for good, 
and who has given much of 
his time to trying to help its 
development, I am deeply 
disappointed and fearful at 
foe outcome.” 

Professor Campbell said 
that the national curriculum, 
a dream at conception, had 
turned into a nightmare at 
delivery. Conscientious teach- 
ers committed to reform were 
having to work unreasonably 
long hours, averaging about 
54 a week, to keep up. 

Only a third of the time was 
spent teaching, foe rest in 
preparation, marking, meet- 
ings, in-service training and 
other professional develop- 
ment, he said. 

This “enervating treadmill” 
left foe teachers working 
hard, but getting little satisfac- 
tion. “1 notice that I never 
complete what 1 hope to 
achieve.” one teacher told 
him. summarising the feel- 
ings of many. 

Professor Campbell sug- 
gested that the demands of 
the national curriculum 
might be modified to make 
them more realisable without 
subjecting teachers to a con- 
tinuation of “unmanageable 
workloads and a profound 
sense of failure" In many 
cases, such changes would 
need more money, to improve 
staffing levels and the teach- 
ing materials available in 
schools. 



Scientists lose fight against malaria 


By Nick Nuttau. 

TECHNOLOGY 

CORRESPONDENT 

.? 

THE popular romantic 
image of a bygone rural age 
in vfoich villagers lived in sdf- 
contained isolation un- 
touched by events outside 
their parish is challenged in a 
study of three English villages 
published yesterday. 

Migrations into villages 
were commonplace and could 
have a significant impact on a 
community’s life. Andrew 
Hinde, a researcher in foe 
social statistics department at 
Southampton University, told 
association members that v3- 


Shining example Andy Gosse, from the British Gas research station at Solihull, West Midlands, waves a sparkler in front of delegates at 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Southampton yesterday. He and his colleague David McHugh gave 
an hour4ong lecture that featured 50 expe riments, inducting explosions, all (resigned to emphasise safety and the science of combustion 

Nochange 
in lot of 
the elderly 

THE notion that today's el- 
derly are more lonely and 
isolated from their children 
than in thepast was dismissed 
yesterday as a myth. 

Richard Wall, a researcher 
at Cambridge University who 
has based his study on records 
dating bade to 1692, told the 
association that the belief that 
the eideriy were cared for in 
the past by complex family 
units was “an idealised 
misrepresentation". 

Institutions for the eideriy 
were common 300 years ago, 
and were normal for men and 
women over 75 years old. The 
number of chfldren living 
dose enough to have regular 
contact with their dderiy par- 
ents had not altered since the 
late eighteenth century, he 
said. 

Differences in tivini 
rangements today 
explained more by 

foe birth rate, foe . 

of small bousing units and 
standards of living than by 
changes in family values, said 
Mr Wall, acting director of 
die Economic and Social Re- 
search Council’s group for 
history of population and 
social sciences. 

Mr Wall found that the 
number of over-7 5 s in institu- 
tions differed little over foe 
centu ri es. The one change in 
modem times was that more 
women were in institutions, 
because of their higher fife 
expectancy. 


WITHIN five years it may be 
impossible to protect travellers 
to some parts of the world 
against malaria (Nigel 
Hawkes writes}. The growth 
of drug resistance is progres- 
sive and frightening, and 
quinine is losing its effective- 
ness, the meeting was told. 

Studies by Nicholas White 
and colleagues at the faculty 
of tropical medicine at 
Mahidol University in Thai- 
land have shown a steady loss 
of drug effectiveness in malar- 
ia patients. “We’re not top- 
ing pace in terms of new 
drugs.” said Adrian HU of 
the John Raddiffe Hospital in 
Oxford. “Recently introduced 
drugs such as Mefloquine are 
losing effectiveness, and there 
are relatively few new drugs in 
development" 


Already malaria is causing 
between one and two million 
deaths a year, almost entirely 
in developing countries. The 
danger, said Dr Hill, was that 
foe declining effectiveness of 
drugs would increase deaths 
to ten million a year. 

Deaths in Britain are rare, 
but not unknown: recently 
Richard Hughes, brother of 
the MP Simon Hughes, died 
after contracting malaria on 
his honeymoon in Kenya. 

The riskiest areas for travel- 
lers are foe relatively prosper- 
ous parts of foe developing 
world, including Thailand 
and Kenya, .where drugs have 
been widely used, allowing 
resistance to develop. Failure 
to complete a course of anti- 
malaria tablets, which is com- 
mon. encourages resistance 


because it allows the infective 
agent to survive and co-exist 
with low lewis of the drug. 
Better use of drugp could slow 
the development of resistance. 
Dr Hill said. 

He reported on efforts to 
develop a vaccine against 
maiana by looking for the 
genes that control the im- 
mune response to the disease. 
“We have identified a proba- 
ble mechanism for the im- 
mune response gene, which 
should lead us to one or two 
antigens which might then be 
candidates for a malaria vac- 
cine," he said. "We should 
have some cocktail of proteins 
in five years that should give 
useful protection against the 
diseas e.” 

.. Dr Bridget Ogilvie, director 
of the Weflcome Trust. 


warned that in spite of the 
finest posed by malaria, de- 
veloping a vaccine might not 
attract drug companies 
because the pro fits would not 
be largei. “There used to be 
many companies producing 
vaccines, now there are very 
few.” she said. “They are 
expensive to develop and to 
maintain, and the risks are 
high. Industry is rather reluc- 
tant to enter into it” 

The most widely used vac- 
cine, developed in Colombia, 
has been tested on tens of 
thousands of people in Latin 
America, with a daimed effec- 
tiveness of 70. per cent: “So 
far. these trials have not been 
published in full.” Dr Hill 
said. “We need more testing 
to know if this vaccine is really - 
effective.” 


Researchers kill myth of unchanging countryside 


lagers welcomed the newcom- 
ers. The people who moved 
in . . . were not marginal to 
foe social and economic life of 
these villages, playing walk- 
on parts. They were often 
central to foe drama.” he said. 

The research, based on a 
detailed analysis of census 
returns and registers of births, 
deaths and marriages be- 
tween 1841 and 1891. also 
challenges the view that in the 
increasingly industrialised 
late nineteenth century, the 
more able villagers migrated 
to the towns, leaving the 
countryside a backwater. 

The study was based on 
Duriey near Southampton. 


Ashley near Winchester, and 
Sombome and Stratfidd 
Turgis. northeast of Basing- 
stoke. The researchers believe 
they are typical of English 
villages at the time. 

A study of Duriey’s popula- 
tion in 1891 found that 192 
people were bom in the parish 
but 262 were bom outside, 
including several from the 
Midlands, a retired doctor 
from Kent and a fanner and 
his famify from Cornwafl. 
Similar patterns were found 
in the other two Hampshire 
villages. 

To assess whether this 
migration had been impor- 
tant for village life, foe re- 


searchers studied records that 
showed fire jobs of the new- 
comers and whether foeywere 
permanent residents or just 
seasonal workers. 

Many new arrivals were 
found to have been central to 
file community's life. For ex- 
ample, in Ashley in 1861. 
four farmers had been bom in 
Dorset, Norfolk, Devon and 
Scotland In Stratfidd Turgis 
in 1861, the hotel keeper was 
from Leicester and foe curate 
came from Tottenham, north 
London. 

The villages also had a 
rapid turnover of residents. In 
Duriey, among a population 
of 483, more than 230 people 


moved away between 1871 
and 1881 but neazfy 200 
moved in. Many migrants 
were women leaving their 
parish to marry or to take up 
servants’ jobs. 

A study of foe Houghton 
family, an important name in 
Duriey since at least 1632, 
found that in 1891 12 mar- 
ried men of that name were 
living in foe village. II of 
them bom in the parish. All 
but one of these men had 
wives who had been bom 
elsewhere, from surrounding 
villages such, as Ittiben State 
and Upton but also from 
Winchester and South 
Australia 



Ministers urged to call halt 
to urban build-up in South 



UNSPOILED countryside all 
over southeast England will 
disappear under bricks and 
mortar unless present accept- 
ed levels of housing develop- 
ment are reduced, the Council 
for foe Protection of Rural 
England says in a leaflet 
published today. 

The housing slump should 
be no cause for complacency. 
Tony Burton, the council's 
senior planner, said yesterday. 
The long-term threat of 
urbanisation was as great as 
ever. 

Last month. Michael How- 
ard, the environment secre- 
tary, had indicated that foe 
government expected 
855.000 new houses to be 
built in the South-East be- 
tween 1991 and 2006. That 
was based on an assumption 
of 57.000 completions a year, 
the same rate agreed in 1989. 
in spite of important changes 
in planning and environmen- 
tal policies in the meantime. 

“The future of hundreds of 
sites around towns and vil- 
lages in the South-East hangs 
in the balance.” Mr Burton 
said. “Reducing levels of hous- 
ing development to that which 
foe environment of the South- 
East can tolerate is one of the 
most important steps which 
the government could take on 
the road to environmentally 
sustainable development.” 

The leaflet observes that 
housebuilding is responsible 


John Young 

reports on the 
fight to keep 
builders from the 
South-East 


for the loss of more of foe 
South-East’s countryside than 
any other form of built dev- 
elopment More than half the 
farmland lost to urban dev- 
elopment goes under new 
houses. 

Reducing the level of hous- 
ing development does not 
mean ignoring foe homeless, 
or preventing affordable 
houses from being built the 
leaflet says. But history has 
shown that building houses 
does not in itself solve the 



problems. Record levels of 
housebuilding in the 1980s 
coincided with record in- 
creases in homelessness and a 
chronic shortage of affordable 
housing. 

New development should 
be concentrated on making 
foe best use of the huge tracts 
of wasteland in towns and 
cities, and on revitalising foe 
thousands of vacant unfit 
bouses. London alone has 
more than 1.140 hectares 
(nearly 3,000 acres) of urban 
dereliction, an area which has 
increased by more than 300 • 
per cent since 1974. Outside 
London there are a further 
700 hectares of derelict land 
mother towns and cities in foe 
South-East 

“It is frequently argued that 
such a small percentage of the 
countryside will disappear 
under housing development 
in the next ten years that 
conservationists’ worries are a 
storm in a teacup,” foe leaflet 
says. But statistics tell only pan 
of the story. 

The predicted loss of 1.27 
per cent of foe total land .to 
urban development meant a 
10 per cent increase in the 
urban area outride London, 
and foe loss of more than 
34,000 hectares of rural land. 
That is equivalent to losing an 
area of countryside almost foe 
size of the Isle of Wight in 20 
years. 

The leaflet pinpoints as 



Safe for the moment: Beech Hill in the path of the Great Lea project 


development “hot spots” 
Carterton, Oxfordshire: Read- 
ing. Berkshire: Princes 
Risborough. Buckingham- 
shire: Micheldever. Hamp- 
shire: Bedford; Brighton; 
Horiey, Surrey: Stevenage. 
Hertfordshire; the Medway 
Gap in Kent: and Chelmsford, 
Essex. 

□ Until now foe M4 motor- 
way sweeping south of Read- 
ing has provided an accepted 
barrier against further urban 
sprawl To the north the 
spread of the housing estates 
surrounding one of Britain’s 
most successful boom towns 
has appeared to be almost 
unstoppable. 

On foe southern side foe 
scene changes abruptly. Bare- 
ly 40 miles from the centre of 
London narrow lanes mean- 
der through idyllic countiyride 


hamlets too small to merit 
more than a passing glance. 
The parkland of Stratfidd 
Saye. home of foe Duke of 
Wellington, is a reminder of a 
less frenetic age. 

But the peaceful acres to foe 
west of the village of Spencers 
Wood, interrupted only by the 
A33 dual carriageway be- 
tween Reading and 
Basingstoke, have for many 
years been coveted by would- 
be developers. 

In 1988 plans by foe 
Speyhawk property group for 
a de facto new town on 300 
acres adjoining Spencers 
Wood, three miles south of 
Reading, were included in foe 
Berkshire structure plan at the 
insistence of Nicholas Ridley, 
then environment secretary, 
but were deleted under pres- 
sure from environmental bod- 


ies. The scheme, to be known 
as Great Lea. would have 
comprised up to 7,000 new 
homes, a shopping centre and 
anew railway station. 

The scheme was opposed by 
Michad Hesdtine, Mr Rid- 
ley’s predecessor and later 
successor at foe department, 
who has consistently argued 
against large-scale develop- 
ment to foe west of London, 
suggesting that expansion in 
the South-East would be best 
accommodated by his fa- 
voured east London “corri- 
dor which runs along 
both banks of foe Thames est- 
uary. 

An appeal by Sp&hawk. 
against the refusal of planning 
permission was rejected after a 
public enquiry in 1 989. That 

is unlikely to be the end of the 

story. 


Russian academics 
do it the hard way 


By Kerry Gill 


ANYONE who suspects that 
academics are a soft lot un- 
used to the 'vicissitudes of 
modern life should be intro- 
duced to ■ Viktor Anisimov, 
deputy brad of foe St Peters- 
burg Institute of Mechanics, 
and his six weather-beaten 
colleagues. 

The seven scientists had 
been invited to exchange ex- 
pertise in oil industry technol- 
ogy and research with their 
counterparts at the new Rob- 
ert Gordon University in 
Aberdeen- The problem was 
that the Russians had no hard 
currency wifo winch to pay the 
£350 fares from St Petersburg 
to Aberdeen. 

Mr Anisimov and his 
friends borrowed a 30ft yacht 
and, despite storms and a fack 
modern navigational equip- 
ment completed foe 19-day 
voyage from foe gulf of Fin- 
land to Aberdeen harbour. 

The crew lived on coffee, 
biscuits, oatmeal and sardines 
as bad weather forced them to 
take a 1 .000- mile zig-zag 
course through foe Baltic and 
foe North Sea. Accommoda 1 
don aboard the yacht, named 
Success, was so cramped that 
at least two were forced to 
remam on deck whatever foe 

weather. They stopped twee, 
at Konig&erg and Gopen- 


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foe return voyage to St Peters- 
burg. He said: “This skill has 
helped us at a time when air 
travel is difficult 'to arrange 
and expensive. It was very 
stormy all file time in the 
Baltic and none of our naviga- 
tional aids worked. 

“We had to rely on a 
compass and a lot of luck to 
get here.” Lucidly ah are s 
experienced sailors and Mr 1 
Anisimov is a member of the 
Russian naval reserve. The 
Russians were spared the red- 
tape nightmare of trying to get 
exit visas. By using seamen’s 
passports , they were allowed a 
five-day stay in Britain. 

Their visit was fiie result of a 
meeting between four of foe 
Russians and scientists at foe 
university. As crew members 
of the yacht Polstar during last 
year's tall shifts race they took 
foe oppo rtunity to cal] at the 
university to discuss future 
■exchange visits and possible 
joint research projects. This 
summer two staff from the 
university paid foe first official % 
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said: “We were expecting a call 
from the airport to say they 
had arrived. We were sur- 
prised to hear that instead they 
had sailed into Aberdeen." 


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THE TIM ES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


British box office boom 


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ranks of bigbusiness 


BySimonTait 

A^TS CORRESPONDENT 

BRITAIN is- becoming one 
great island arts festival with 
557 annual event? lasting 
from two days to several weeks 
each, the Policy Studies Insti- 
tute says in a report published 
today. 

In 1991 festivals sold 42 
minion tickets worth £17.6 
m illion. 41 per cant of die 
income from the events. More 
than half the festivals have 
been founded since 1980, 
often as a means of boosting 
local economies by attracting 
tourists and encoura gin g ur- 
ban-renewal. 

“Although many are small- 
scale, takentogether arts festi- 
vals are big business." the ' 
report says. Last year festivals 
received an estimated E6.3 
million in sponsor ship , while 
£7 milli on came from local 
authorities. 

Festival income ranges from 
£1 15 -to more than £5-5 mflr 
lkm, with an average of 
£22,000. white a third have an 
income of less than £10,000. 
The biggest box office income 
draws are the Edinburgh. 
International Festival and 
Glyndeboume Festival Opera, 
accounting together for more 
than 30 per cent of all festival 
box office receipts. Five festi- 
vals take more than so per 
cent of all receipts. 

Apart from their prolifera- 
tion, the most obvious feature 
of arts festivals is direrehy in 
she, content and professional 
input The report says that 62 
par cent of arts festivals are 
professionally managed. 

“Arts festivals are very di- 
verse in their she and subject 
matter, but die one thing thty 
have in common is die cele- 
bratory aspect,” Headier 
Robe, the author of the report 
said. 

Though audiences are in- 
creasing, the economics of 
running an arts festival, are 
becoming more difficult The 
income of British festivals is an 




New due 


T1 WjTRR 


The kidnapper of a bank 
manager's wife is believed to 
be responsible for an extortion 
incident at a second bank, 
police revealed yesterday. 
Cheshire detectives bunting 
the bogus policeman who 
kidnapped Elizabeth Kerr lor 
a £40,000 ransom on August: 
14 say they have established -a 
firm link with an extortion 
attempt in the West Midlands- 
a week earlier. 

That incident, at a NatWest 
bank in Solihull bn August 7. 
also featured a demand for 
money but did not involve a 
kidnap, police said. 

Mrs Kerr, 37, was taken 
from her borne in Holmes 




the boot of a car while her 
hu&and, manager of Barclays 
in Sale, Greater Manchester, 
collected and banded over the 
ransom. 

Fire kills girl 

Firemen believe a candle used 
in the bedroom of a three-year- 

old girt who hated deeping in 
the dark might have caused 
her death when itset fire to her 
bedroom. Natalie Godfrey's 
five-year-old sister Lucy was 
also badly burnt in the blaze, 
which broke out after the elec- 
tricity meter was turned off at 
their house in Great Ches- 
ter-fond. Essex. 

Theft charge 

A former Bank of England 
worker accused of stealing 
more than £1 50,000 from its 

incineration depot was sent for 

trial at Southwark Crown 
Court. Kevin Winwrigbt, of 
Chelmsford, Essex, was com- 
mitted on bail by Bow Street 
magistrates. 

Jury mix-up 

A man was about to take his 
seat on an Old Bailey jtuy 
when staff discovered that by 
coincidence tire jury was* t o 
heara burglary charge against 
his son. The jury panel was 
discharged and the case trans- 
ferred to another court 

Voles counted 

Scientists have begun a cehsus 
of the vole .population on 
Simmer island off the Pem- 
brokeshire, coast Studies are 
carried outevery decade . 

Death in cell 

Philip: GouMing, .30, accusal 
of murdering his lover at their 
Stranraer . home;.' was found, 
dead, han ging Ir> liis cdl at. 
Dumfries prison. ’ " . 


2nom**M 

EcSnbutgh Frfoge^-. S2QJJ90 
BBC Promenade - 

Concerts 25GJQ00 

Edinburgh Festival _ 167,000 

Wnfnfi bffrflriri r.T . - 

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Bsteddfod _ 164,000 

Brighton Festival, 130,000 

UangoBen BstftL 117.000 


estimated: E4Q.6. mfltion a 
year, but their organhets 
spend £40.9 miffion on them. 
More than half had a defirit 
iastyear.and 13 percent bare 

The report says organises 
were optimistic because of the 
sizebf audiences md- die 
willingness of voNinfeess. but 
pessimistic because of lack of 
Snared support fay the gov- 
ernment or die uncertainty of 
3 ocal 'authority ftmding. 

Dr Rotfe said: “Organisers 
are saymg that stances of 
funding are draining towards 
business sponsorship, but as 
the recession bites deeper dim 
money is becoming harder to 
find." The amateur organiser? 
who run 38 per cent of 
festivals may lack experience 
in trending for the business- 
sponsorship th^ need. 

Festivals are popular with 
the mediai:‘39per cent of them 
had radio and televirion cover- 
age lastyear. They have also 
been an important conduit for 
new works, with 34 percentof 


Estimated annual Income 
of UK art festivals (1991) 

Source* of Income . £m 

Bax office receipts - 17.6 

Business sponsorship 6-6 
Local authority funding — 7.0 
Regional arts boards JLO 
Others (friends' donations, . 
catering, sales etc) — 72 

Total income 406 


£400,000 
feny error 
leaves Scots 
isle at sea 

BvKerktGiu. 

THE future of Britain's most 
remote island communityhas 
been thrown into doubt 
because of a blunder that has 
left the inhab itants without 
theficown island-based feny 
service. . 

| ' People Kving on FOnla. off 
the west coast of Sfietiand, 
lost their, own ferry three 
years ago when Shetland 
couhril premised them a new 
boat that would be berthed at 
a £1 ntiffion purpose-built 
pier on the island. Since then 
they have made do sharing a 
ferry: with the island of Papa 
Stour Jo die north. 

No one rixndd have been 
happier than thc-42 islanders 
when they heard that then- 
new vessel Westering Home- 
words, was about to arrive in 
Shetland. But the £400,000 
feny had . hardly turned a 
screw before it was found to 
be unaritabfe for the stopn- 

wracked north Atlantic. 

Yesterday, . councillors 
agreed that a feny should be 

based at Foula but said die 
problem was finding a suit- 
aide one. They were ft* 1 
legal artkmby the councfl had 
not been ruled oat though 
Edward Thomason, the coun- 
cil convener, refused to say 
who such actkm cooM be 
taken against. Captain 
George Sutherland, director 

of marine' services, is to pre- 
pare* report on the matter 
The Foufa islanders, mean- 
while, are enraged, “the old 
island-based .feny was .often 
our otdylink with fee outride . 
wrakt" saidlscbdHoIboum, 
the islanders’ spokeswoman. 
“You can bwaglne bow we felt 
when we beard that die 
Westering Homewards would 
be useless in these waters." 

. Without a Foulabased 
boat mail services have be* 
come erratic, Evestock has 
missed market and grocery 

supplies have been cut 



them coro m ferion i ng artists. 
buttbatnaybechauMwah 
a reducti on in mtftinfaslnns 
becanse of reduced funding. 

. "Some festival organisers 
bdfewtb^.to^hcoaqtetition 
for funding discourages Suti- 
vais from metating innova- 
tory work and mates festivals' 
programmes increasingly pre- 
dictable and unadventurous," 
. die repot says. - 

. The report Is puhfthed a 
the height of tite festival sea- 
son. and almost a tiri rd of 

to^ch^^raofnorenatsical 
events and to appeal to youn- 
ger people. Others arc recon- 
ti t terin g dales and duration. 

E dinburgh might split its 
.international,^ .fringe, ' jazz, 
film, tdfrraaon and books 
festivals, which are concur- 
rent. to spread diem over the 
year, and draw the intema- 
tiomyi festival but to cover fire 
weeks instead of three. 

Arts Festivals InThe UK. by 
HetdherRalfe. Is published by 
the Polity Studies Institute at 
£1435. 

Leading article, page H 



HOME NEWS 5 


Battle theme takes 
BBC2 into autumn 

By Melinda Wmvroac, medu correspondent 


CONFLICT in the twentieth 
century will be the theme of 
War And Peace, a month-long 
sertes of documentaries, clas- 
sic orogrammes and feature 


Getting in cm the acn Prince Edward rehearsing yesterday with the Haddo Players far 
the company's production of Trebwny of the wefts at Haddo House; Grampian 


films mat forms part of the 
□4 minimi autumn schedule 
announced yesterday by 
BBC2. 

Tbe series, which ends on 
Remembrance day on Nov- 
ember 8, will indude a power- 
ful reflection on warfare fay 
the poet Tony Harrison. Mr 
Harrison has collaborated 
with Peter Symes to make 
Goae of the Gorgon, in which 
the creature of legend that 
turned men to stone becomes 
a metaphor for the twentieth 
century, poring the question 
of what society can do to 
resist its petrifying ^ze. 

I Renounce War looks at 
the history of conscientious 
objection in Britain during 
both world wars, while Battle 
Cries investigates how sol- 
diers behave in combat. 
Splendid Hearts attempts to 
reclaim the history of the 
names on war memori a ls. 

BBG2*s Saturday night dra- 
ma series Performance re- 
turns with Sir Alec Guinness 
and Jeremy Irons in Tales 
from Hollywood, written fay 
Christopher Hampton. Set in 


1940s Hollywood and seen 
through the eyes of Thomas 
Mann, his brother Heinrich, 
Bertolt Brecht and Odon von 
Horvath, the play examines 
the bizarre cultural conflicts 
of wartime Hollywood. 

Alan Yentob, controller of 
BBC2, has promised “a deli- 
rious deviant brew of demon- 
ology" in Witchcraft, about a 
screenwriter who chooses sev- 
enteenth-century witchcraft 
as the subject of her latest 
film script. As filming begins 
the boundaries of fiction and 
reality blnr. Jennifer 
Saunders writes and stars in a 
new oomedy series with Joan- 
na Lumtey, Absolutely Fabu- 
lous . which revolves around a 
fashion PR boss and her best 
friend. 

The Prince of Wales wQl 
join Sir Roy Strong on a 
guided tour in Royal Gan 
dens, while Sir John Harvey 
Jones, the former I Cl chair- 
man. wiB return with a second 
series of Troubleshooter. 

Musk and arts documenta- 
ries indude a lode back at 
Kurt Weill’s Broadway career, 
a portrait of Rachmaninov in 
exile, and profiles of the 
children’s writer Enid Blyton 
and the crime writer P.D. 
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6 OVERSEAS NEWS 

Iraqis move 
warplanes 
north of 32nd 

parallel 

• From Jamie Dettmer in Washington 
and Christopher Walker in Nicosia 


PRESIDENT Saddam Hus- 
sein. despite issuing blood- 
curdling statements on Mon- 
day threatening to resist any 
plan to impose a “no-fly" zone 
in southern Iraq, has stilted to 
move combat aircraft to bases 
north of the 32nd parallel and 
our of harm's way. 

According to American in- 
telligence reports, the rede- 
ployment began at the week- 
end as Baghdad was declarin g 
its intention to respond mili- 
tarily to the introduction by 
America, Britain and France 
of an air exclusion zone in the 
South. More than 30 war- 
planes have been moved 
north, leaving only about ten 
inside the prohibited area. 

As the Pentagon analysed 


Kabul hunt 
for truce 
begins 

By Our Foreign Staff 

TWO of the most senior 
members of Afghanistan’s rul- 
ing leadership council said 
yesterday that they would 
leave Pakistan for Kabul to 
negotiate a ceasefire between 
dissident Mujahidin guerril- 
las and the Afghan president 

Vice-President Muhammad 
Nabi Muhammadi and 
Younis Khalis. leader of a 
splinter faction of the Hezb-i- 
islami party, {Han to go to 
Kabul or its surrounding prov- 
ince today, officials said. 

“We want a complete 
cease fir e and reconciliation 
between them to establish an 
Islamic government," die Af- 
ghan Islamic Press quoted Mr 
Khalis as saying. Mr Khalis 
and die more moderate Mr 
Mu hammadi are members of 
the leadership council, an 
uneaw coalition of at leak sen 
Mujahidin parties set up 
when the Mujahidin took 
power from die communist 
government in KabuL 

There was heavy rocket and 
artillery fire in Kabul yester- 
day as the renegade Hezb-i- 
Islami and forces loyal to the 
Mujahidin Islamic govern- 
ment launched offensives 
against each other’s positions. 

The two veteran Mujahidin 
leaders had received accep- 
tances to a letter sent to 
President Burhanuddin 
Rabbani of Afghanistan and 
to the fundamentalist Hezb 
leader Gulbuddin Hekmat- 
yar. also a member of the 
leadership council who is 
based south of die city, the 
official said. “We received a 
positive reply from every side," 
the Afghan Islamic Press 
quoted Mr Khalis as saying. 

In Brussels, the medical 
relief organisation M6d6cms 
sans Frontferes said yesterday 
that about 200,000 civilians 
have fled the fighting in Kabul 
and 50,000 erf them have to 
survive in very bad conditions. 
It added that the refugees have 
settled in makeshift camps 
along the road to the city of 
Mazar-i-Sharif, northwest of 
KabuL 


the latest intelligence assess- 
ments of Iraqi military dispo- 
sitions in and around the 
southern marshlands, home 
to die Shia Muslim rebellion 
against Saddam’s regime, the 
State Department cautioned 
Iran not to take advantage of 
the Western allies' plan. 

During the Gulf war. Amer- 
ica sent frequent messages to 
Tehran aimed at reassuring 
Iran that Washington pored 
no military threat No reply 
has been received yet from 
President Rafsanjani's gov- 
ernment which has backed 
with supplies some Shia fac- 
tions in southern Iraq, Several 
Arab governments have. ex- 
pressed disquiet over the West- 
ern air prohibition plan on the 
grounds that it risks encourag- 
ing die break-up of Iraq ana 
will result in the strengthening 
of Iran in the region. 

The message to Iran was 
part of Washington’s diplo- 
matic effort to calm regional 
fears. On Monday, Gulf Arab 
diplomats in Kuwait claimed 
that an announcement of the 
“no-fly" zone had been de- 
layed because Arab govern- 
ments had asked the Western 
allies to r&foink their plan. 
Bush administration officials 
denied there had been any slip 
in the timetable for die an- 
nouncement agreed between 
Washington. London and 
Paris. 

Yesterday, Martin Frtz- 
water, the White House press 
secretary, said a statement 
from President Bush on the 
{Han would be made in the 
next few days. On Sunday. Mr 
Fhzwater predicted that the 
ban would be imposed yester- 
day, but he did say it might 
take a few days longer. 

The redeployment of Iraqi 
warplanes over the weekend 
coincided with an increase in 
attacks by Iraqi troops and 
helicopters on Shia positions, 
according to the American 
intelligence reports. Leading 
exiled Iraqi opposition sources 
also said yesterday drat Iraqi 
air and heavy artillery attacks 
were continuing on the Shias 
in the southern marshes. 

The latest reports from In- 
side the marshlands were cir- 
culated by Saad Jabr, the son 
of a former prime minister. 
They named three villages in 
foe Amara area, at-Misrah, al- 
Nakkara and aJ-Mahalla, 
which were “heavily bombed" 
causing many casualties and 
forcing their inhabitants to 
flee into the marshes. The area 
is just below the 32nd paraflei 

The reports, which have not 
been confirmed, also name 
three villages in the Nasiriya 
district, aWarish, al-Hammar 
and al-Fuhood, which they 
said were the target of re- 
newed artillery attack. 




the town of Baidoa. who became 
frightened when they Ieamtthere 
would nor be enough food to go 
around, being beaten with sticks to 
keep them under control It was 
disclosed yesterday that gunmen 


seized and kUted II Somali em- Friday but -UN aid officials stiQ 
ig centre near ployees of the Red Cross test week could not say yesterday where the 


(Oar Foreign Staff writes). The men 
were being taken from Kismayu, 
whose people are of a different dan 
from the employees, to a safer area. 
The US military airlift of food into 
Somalia is expected to begin on 


planes wefip be heading and how 
aid would be distributed. Tbe CI31- 
Hercules aircraft can only fly to a 
few airports in foe country. Four 
are in the ports of Mogadishu and 
Kismayu where food is being 


brought in by strip. The ofoers anc 
in foe worst-hit areas, at Hockhm 
Baidera. Baidoa an&BieJet Hnen_ 
Meanwhfie, an official of the UN 
High Qmumssscmer for Refugees 
saidyesterday that Stidaiase rebels 
had blocked UN attempts to visit 
4,000 refugees taken to southern 


Israel hints at concession 
to Syria on Golan Heights 

From Richard Beeston in Jerusalem 


ISRAEL hinted yesterday that 
it was ready to make some 
territorial concessions on the 
strategic Golan Heights cap- 
tured from Syria 25 years ago. 

In an interview with Israel 
Radio. Shimon Peres, the 
foreign minister, confirmed 
that negotiators at foe peace 
talks in Washington would be 
working on foe basis of UN 
Resolution 242, which calls 
for withdrawal oflsradi forces 
from territories captured in 
the 1 967 six-day war. 

Asked whether Israel would 
tefl Syria it was ready to 
withdraw from the plateau, 
Mr Peres replied: “Israel is 
saying this the way it decided 
to say this, namely, using the 
words of resolutions 242 and 
338 ... Israel declares that 
resolution 242 applies to all 
fronts." 

His comments, although 
detiberatriy vague, neverthe- 
less were a radical departure 
from the previous Likud-led 
government of Yitzhak Sham- 
ir, which insisted that the 
Jewish state had already met 
foe terms of foe resolution by 
returning foe Sinai peninsula 
to Egypt under the Camp 
David accords. It resolutely 
refused to contemplate a with- 
drawal from foe Golan 
Heights or the occupied West 
Bank and Gaza Ship. 

The Israeli foreign minister 
gave a warning, however, that 
at this stage Israel was discuss- 
ing only “principles not maps" 
and he urged Damascus not 
to interpret his comments as 
meaning Israel was ready to 
relinquish the Golan, home to 

15.000 Israeli settlers and 

18.000 Druze Arabs. “The 
Syrians should certainly soften 



their position; otherwise, they 
will jeopardise the continua- 
tion of the peace negotia- 
tions,” he said. “It is 
inconceivable that foe Syrians 
wfll say that they will start foe 
negotiations after we accept 
their positions on all issues.” 

A note of caution was also 
injected by Yitzhak Rabin, the 
Israeli prime minister, during 
a visit to foe Palestinian town 
of RamaDah where he warned 
both Israelis and Palestinians 
not to expect any “mirades or 
short cuts”. In particular, be 
said that in foe talks between 
Israeli and Palestinian negoti- 
ators which reconvened yester- 
day the two sides still had 
fundament al .differences on 
the question of elections in the 
occupied territo ries. Israel en- 
visages an administrative 
council but Palestinians de- 
mand a legislative assembly. 

However, he repeated his 
offer to allow the polls to be 
held within tbe- coming 
months. “I would be prepared 
to propose a target date of 
April or May 1993 as a date 
for elections on condition that 
we determine the stages lead- 


ing up to that For example, by 
December 1 foe electoral sys- 
tem, by January 1 or February 
1 an agreement on what we 
hand over to the administra- 
tive council.” 

Not surprisingly, foe com- 
ments of the two veteran 
Labour leaders drew immedi- 
ate criticism from the opposi- 
tion right-wing hawks who 
accused foe govermtumt of 
offering foe Arab sia£ conces- 
sions with nothing ijwetum. 
“The Israeli negotiators are 
competing to see who has 
more concessions in his sack,” 
Ariel Sharon, foe hardline 
former housing minister, told 
foe Knesset 

However, the right wing has 
failed so far to mobilise a 
credible campaign against the 
left-wing coalition, a fact high- 
lighted on Monday when 
seven .opposition Knesset 
members staged a demonstra- 
tion march through Arab east 
Jerusalem, which attracted . at 
most 40 of their supporters. 

Right-wing fears were com- 
pounded by foe announce- 
ment yesterday that two 
dovish Knessetmembers, Yael 
Dayan of Labour and Naomi 
Chazan of the leftist Meretz 
party, had held a secret meet- 
ing in The Hague last week 
with Nabil Shaath, a Palestin- 
ian official. Although such 
contacts are still banned, under 
Israeli law, Yael Dayan, 
daughter of foe late defence 
minister Moshe Dayan, said 
foal she held foe meeting to 
show that “there is a majority 
among the Israeli public and. 
today also in foe Knesset as 
well as among Palestinians 
and the PLO leadership which 
speaks foe same language". 


Akihito’s visit to 



From Catherine Sampson in Peking «' 



ANOTHER old Asian enemy 
fell tinder Peking’s sway yes- 
terday when Japan an- 
nounced that Emperor AM- 
hffo would be making a 
controversial visit to China in 
October. The announcement 
came just a day after China ■ 
established diplomatic rela- 
tions with South Korea and 
caused great satisfaction in; 
Peking, which is eager for 
trade and investment and has 
[ pushed hard for the emperor 
* to come. 

. The news caused nervous- 
ness in Tokyo, where, right- 
. wingers have opposed, the 
visit, fearing foe emperor may 
be humiliated by having to 
apologise for wartime atroc- 
ities. A member of Japan’s 
right-wing nationalist fringe 
reacted soon after the an- 
nouncement fay retting a truck 
ablaze outside foe official resi- 
dence of Kiidii Miyazawa, -foe. 
prime minister. 

Japanese officials said that 
Peking had agreed that the 
emperor would not apologise, 
but nationalists .did not seem : 
reassured. A police spokesman 
said that a special security 
commissibn had been set up to 
protect public figures from 
possible terrorist attacks in- 
spired by foe news of the trip. 

The viat wfll be the first by a 
Japanese monarch since the 
occupati o n of China, daring 
which an estimated ten mil- 
lion people died. In one of the 
most infomous episodes of the 
war, Japanese soldiers mur- 
dered some 200,000 civilians 
in foe rily of Nanking. At a 
camp in Heilongjiang, they 
earned out biological experi- 
ments On Chinese prisoners. 

. Recent polls show that 70 


be sore- 
war. 



J! V . u.. 

per cent of Japanese are fc 
favour of the visfcvfoicfrwz& 
strengthen refotfeas between 
foe two most important ooma- 
tries in Asia. Right-wingers, 
however, fear that the emper- 
or. as the son of the wartime 
Emperor Hirohito, who died 
in;. 1989, is? vulnerable to 
Chinese demands for some 
expression of regret 
• Chinese 
fy tempted to 
It hasbeen a 
of teoSHHV^ffhf 
edly charging foaf -'Japan 
glasses over its wartime crimes 
m schoel Woofa,: But the 
Cbdhese leadership wiff not 
endanger tire success of foe 
visit, and tfafitomonvic bene- 
fits ftcouMformg, by raising 
such sensffite topics. • 

' ’’PsiShg' relinquished its 
right to seek war indemnity 
from Japan in. 1972, when 
.relations were normalised. 
The agreement, however, did 
not apply to noregovemmeo- 
tal. organisations or individ- 
uais. Ebiyfois year, a Chinese 
intellectual Tong Zeng, col- 
lected signatures from more 
than HLOOO Chinese war 
victims in order .'to press for 
compensation.. Such individ- 
ual; ■ campaigns . are usually 
quashed quiddy by Peking, 
but this one has until now 
been tolerated — a sign of tacit 
support 

But Peking is. 'unlikely to 
allow such campaigners any- 
where near the emperor, not 
least because in the past anti- 
Japanese feeling his fuelled 
mass stndem.dernonstzations. 
That is one aspect of Chinese 
life that the . Communist lead- 
ers have no intention of show- 
ing off to tbe emperor. 


Sect leader oversees arranged 
marriage of 60,000 Moonies 


FORTY thousand people 
lined up with military preci- 
sion and chanted wedding 
vows in unison at Seoul’s 
Olympic stadium yesterday, 
many of them pledging to love 
and cherish a virtual stranger. 
Another 20,000 participated 
from afar, pledging their vows 
by satellite link-up across three 
continents in the largest mass 
wedding to date arranged by 
foe Unification Church of the 
Rev Sun Myung Moon. 

Clean-shaven, short-haired 
grooms sweated in foe bright 
sunshine in identical dark 
suits and red ties. The women, 
faces hidden behind identical 
white veils, tiutefaed identical 
bouquets to their identical 
white gowns. Thousands 
stood alone, holding a 
graph of their) 
rated on their wedding day 
because of visa or financial 
problems. The couples are not 
permitted to consummate the 
marriage for 40 days. 

Mr Moon, wearing a white 
and gold crown and draped in 
a flowing gold-edged white 
gown, presided at foe wed- 
ding from a podium erected 
above foe couples, who had 
xmwrfrom 131 countries. “Do 



From Reuter in seoul 

women who are to consum- 
mate the 1 ideal creation of 
God, pledge to become eternal 
husband and wife?” he asked 
the crowd. “Yes," went up the 
roar in different tongues, mak- 
ing one of four responses 
needed for foe four-part wed- 
ding vow. The couples, many 
weeping, exchanged identical 
wedding rings. 

Mr Moon sprinkled water 
over the 20 couples closest to 
his podium. Sect officials 
moved through the crowd on 
the running trade, sprinkling 
each pair from a small bowl 

“Father.” they cried as he 
swept out of the stadium and 
thousands of doves and 
multicoloured balloons were 
released into the sky. “Thank 
you. thank you,” they 
screamed, their voices echoing 
off the padoed stands. Friends 
and relatives packed the are- 
na. responding quietly and 
obediently to instructions to 
rise and sit 

A few, like foe popular 
Japanese actress. Junto 
Sakurada, have spent several 

weeks ge ttin g But 

thousands of Moonies wed 
virtual strangers. "It’s hard to 
explain to an outsider ," said 


who met his Fflmina bride for 
tbe first time five days ago. 
“It's a question of belief.” 

A church booklet says: 
“Most church members desire 
that Rev Moon recommend a 
marriage partner. Romantic 
courtship relationships of the 
sort common among unmar- 
ried people in the West are 
discouraged within the culture 
of foe church.” 

More than 8.000 couples 
were paired off by Mr Moon 
only- days ago, mixing and 
matching photographs of 
would-be brides and grooms. 
They trickled into the stadium 
in pairs, some unable to speak 
the' same language: Hands 
flew and pencils sketched out 
ideas as brides and grooms 
probed for information about 
the person with whom they 
would spend the nest of their 
lives. 

Almost half foe brides and 
grooms were Japanese. The 
messianic Unification move- 
ment, which regards Mr 
Moon as the thud Adam 
completing a task kft undone 
when Jesus was crucified, is 
strongest in Japan. The South 
Korean-based church dafrns 
to have more than two million 


Odd couple scream their way to court 


FROM Ben Maontyre 

IN NEW TOR* 

AS THE southern states 
shudder under the fury of 
Hurricane Andrew, New 
Yorkers continue to devote, 
most of their attention to a 
tempest doser to home. The 
child custody battle between 
Woody Men and bis former 
lover tiie actress Mia Farrow 
moved yesterday from the 
pages of every magazine and 
newspaper in the city to the 
supreme court in Manhattan. 

Tbe latest charge against 
Allen, that he had brought 
forward the release date of his 
new film. Husbands and 
Wives, in order to capitalise 
on publicity surrounding foe- 
case. was splashed across the 
New York Past front page 
yesterday. Tbe film stars Allen 
and Farrow and has eerie par- 
allels with five drama bong 
played out in real life. Given 
the welter of charges' and 
counter-charges of child 
abuse, blackmail, violence 
and betrayal allegations of 
mere greed may seem like 
light relief for Allen. 

Tbe Manhattan judge. 
Phyllis Gangd-Jacob, now 
has tire task of unravelling the 
truth behind foe vitriol Yes- 
terday, lawyers for both par- 
ties presented that pre- 



Note of anguish: Woody Allen leaving Michael's Pub 
in New York after his weekly clarinet performance 


liming motions at a pre-trial 
hearing to set a schedule for 
later proceedings. As -the 
judge who preaded over the 
marriage. break-up between 
Donald and Ivana Trump, 
Judge Gangd-Jacob is no 
stranger to celebrity feuds, but 
the. Allen-Farrow case has 
achieved an emotional com- 
plexly ra n mi scent of Men’s 
films, and a melodramatic 
bitterness worthy of Wagner. 

Men. has acknowledged 





that he is haying an affair 
with . Farrow’s adopted 
daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, 
who is believed to be about 
2 Ubut has denied allegations 
that he abused his own adopt- 
ed daughter Dylan, seven. 
Alien, 56. chums he had no 
interest in Soon- YE as a child: 
“I thought she was going to be- 
a nun," he said. 

Men. in turn, las accused 
Farrow, 47, his companion of. 
the past 12 years, of bring an 


abusive and violent mnthgr 
unfit to retain custody erf their 
three children, two of whom 
are ad opte d. Soon-Yi. who 
was adopted -fay Farrow and 
her former husband, the con- 
ductor Andre Previn, ' and 
Who . is now firing with . Allen, 
says her mother once hit her 

with a chair and was often ab- 
usive. Allen also says: Farrow’s 

miIlion(£3.5 mfflionjin 
exchange for suppressing foe ' 
allegations of ahise. 

Both sides say that “much 
more” wiB come out in court 
As Alien told Time magazine, 

he feds he is “at the centre of a 

cosmic expfosaon.'*. ■ 

Whether New Yorkers will 
get to see and hearthe second 
naff of tire drama has yet to be . 
decided. On Monday, lawyers 
for both sides asked foat film 
came ras should be banned 
. from the court Judge Gan g » fl . 
Jacobs, ruled that, «ttha»gh 
■other press representatives 
could attend, radio reporte r s 
andtrievmoh cameras should 
be banned at yestezriqy’s pre- 

trito hearing, bm she reserwH 

judgment on whether pro- 
ceedings could betelevisedai 
alaterdate. 

‘‘it is a little. late for these - 
parties to discover Hdw tije 

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iker 
not to quit 

BefrntThe Lebanese govern- 
ment yesterday called on Hus- 
semHosseim, the parlia- 
mentary Speaker, to withdraw 
his resignation which he sub- 
mitted on Monday, alleging 
foa&foertresf phase of elections 
were rigged. He suffered an 
hnrvn~Kgting defeat from the 
Iraraant&acked Hezbollah 
fundamentalist group in Ins 
Baalbeck constituency (Aii 
■fcfoerwriteq. 

Tbe administration refused 
to yield to his demand to 
annofifee' the polls null and 
void, preferring to wait until 
this morning, when the final 
results become available. 

Jet talks held 

Moscow: Qin Jiwri, foe Chi- 
nese defence minister, visiting 
here, discussed with Pavel 
Grachev, his Russian counter- 
part, tbe possibility of Moscow 
selling fighter aircraft and oth- 
er arms to China. They also 
discussed arms reduction and 
border security. (Reuter) 

Nine killed 

Johannesburg: A South Afri- 
can policeman under investi- 
gation for rape shot dead eight 
people, including five col- 
leagues and a four-year-old 
before shooting himself 
at a police station and 
prison complex at Goede- 
moed. Orange Free State. 

Boat spotted 

Singapore: A Taiwanese fish- 
ing brat, foe Teifti 51, fleeing 
foe scene of its collision with a 
luxury finer oh Sunday, was 
seen steaming north in the 
South China Sea, a Singapore 
official said. Malaysia, has 
launched a p. air and sea 
search for the vessel {Rente jj 

Niidearpact 

Mexico City: The French am- 
bassador to Mexico said that 
France has ratified a protocol 
erf a l p67 treaty that would 
prohibit the construction or 
stockpiling of nuclear arms in 
its territories In Latin America. 
Britain has also' signed the 
protocol (Reuter) 

Robot fanners 

Tokyo-. Japan plans to develop 
robot farm workers to take the 
place Of. people ahflndnnjn g 
the land for Jobs in cities, an 
official said. The fanning pop- 
ulation had dropped from six 
pufltonlKiuseiuttdsln 1960 to 
3^78 miltion last year. (Reuter) 

Bingo bulletins 

Sydney: Fierce competition 
has . led Australian teteriskm 
station s to i ntroduce bingo 
games dtiring-foeir hews pro- 
grammes. Prizes include cars, 
cash and holidays for foe lucky 
winners whose game card \ 
numbers -matth those shown 
on screen. (Reuter) 

Grass widow 

Bula wayo: A 7 1 -year-old 
grandmother was fined a to- 
ken 40'Znnbabwe dollars (£4j 
for anokiDg marijuana in her 
hoiuc. Arms " 

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8 YUGOSIAVIA 


THE 


Ambitious peace talks 


allure 


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THE London Conference, 
which the prime minister 
opens today, is the world's 
most ambitious attempt yd to 
find a comprehensive political 
solution to the break-up of 
Yugoslavia, 

Hie conference is also, how- 
ever, a tacit admission that 
poorly co-ordinated attempts 
by the European Community 
and by die United Nations to 
halt the fighting in the former 
Yugoslavia and to promote a 

lasting ceasefire there have 

faiWi 

The resignation of Lord 
Carrington, after a year of 
increasingly unproductive 
shuttle diplomacy, marlq an 
end to the Europeans’ at- 
tempt- to resolve the conflict 
without involving powers out- 
side the former Yugoslavia. 

B ritain has spent more 
than two weeks preparing this 
conference, which Douglas 
Hurd, the foreign secretary, 
originally opposed, believing 
it would undermine Lord 
Canington’s mission. The 
main danger now is that 
Serbia or another of the 
Yugoslav protagonists will 
walkout But the pressures on 
them to remain to negotiate 
will be strong, especially as 
any walkout is likely to tough- 
en international opinion 
against the parties refusing to 
negotiate. 


This week’s meeting marks a tacit 
admission that international attempts 
to promote a lasting ceasefire have not 
worked, Michael Binyon writes 


An important byproduct of 

the preparations has been the 
smoothing of relations with 

Boutros Boutros Ghall the 
United Nations secretary-gen- 
eral who. earlier accused the 
European Community, and 
espeaaJly Britain, of overplay- 
ing the Yugoslav crisis at the 
expense of other parts of the 
world and imposing on the 
United Nations more than it 
could handle. 

The conference, due to end 
.tomorrow evening, has set 
ilsdf four objectives: a prom- 
ise by all the waning parties 
not to use force; an end to 
ethnic deansing;. the closure 
of all detention camps and, 
until then, an end to human 
rights violations inside them; 
and a respect by all sides for 
frontiers and the rights of 
ethnic minorities. 

If any side rejects these 
terms the conference will try 
to mobilise the international 
community to impose harsher 
political and economic sanc- 


tions than those that are now 
being deployed against Bel- 
grade. Unless Serbian leaders 
follow through swiftly on 
promises made to hah the 
lighting in Bosnia. British 
o fficials are hoping for swift 
agreement among all, includ- 
ing the Russians, for new 
measures that could even 
indude a total communica- 
tions embargo. 

Hie meeting in London 
brings together all the foreign 
ministers of the European 
Community [das Russia and 
America; Dr Boutros Ghali 
and his two senior under- 
secretaries, Manack Gould- 
ing and Vladimir Petrovsky; 
Cyrus Vance, the special Uni- 
ted Nations envoy: Lord 
Carrington, who will not step 
down until next week; repre- 
sentatives of M uslim coun- 
tries: and the leaders of the six 
former Yugoslav republics 
and of their warring ethnic 
groups. 

The oonferenoe is the begin- 


ning of a standing interna- 
tional conference that wDl be 
based in Geneva, where Mr 
Vance and Lord Carrington's 
successorwill continue negoti- 
ations on all the aspects of foe 
break-up of Yugoslavia- “We 
are looking for a comprehen- 
sive political settlement of the 
issues raised by the republics 
that they can all agree to at the 
end of the day,” one British 
offidaZ said. 

Two immediate issues will 
dominate the London meet- 
ing; the fighting in Bosnia 
arm the sdfrproc&imed rump 
state of Yugoslavia winch has 
not yet been recognised by 
any other country. 

British officials played 
down apy hope for a quick 
end to foe bloodshed in 
Bosnia. “We are not going for 
another, quick and risky 


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ceasefire. It would only hold if 
it were accompanied by confi- 
dence-building measures. 
There can be no lasting 
ceasefire unless it takes into 
account supervision of heavy 
weapons, foe refugees, control 

Of the disparate mflitaiy 

groups; the lack of trust, the 
hatred and bitterness,’* an 
official said. 

The conference wifi also 
attemp t ‘to reach agreement 
on how sanctions should be 
tightened, if necessary, and 
on co-ordinated huxrzanifar- 


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tying of the camps and sente- the four subgroups set up by . rnsnitari aw^g 
meat of refugees.' , LordCarrington: on Bosnia, ‘chaired "b^® 

The conference wifi take minorities, economic ; Issues * Ogata, foaSSKi 
over all foe negotiations- how and foe recognition ofsucces- v-High Cam>3pS 
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to reinforce 
oil embargo 


From Roger Boyes in zagreb 
AND DESSATREVISAN IN BELGRADE 


BRITAIN and Germany are 
expected to take foe lead at the 
London peace talks on Yugo- 
slavia this week in an attempt 
to tighten economic sanctions 
against Serbia, Western diplo- 
mats said yesterday. 

Marty companies are still 
supplying goods to Belgrade 
and crucial deliveries are 
being made through Macedo- 
nia and along foe Danube 
river. Pressure wifi be put on 
Greece to block the many oil 
tanker trucks that are crossing 
into Macedonia and then 
driving further to Belgrade. 
Romania will also be raged to 
monitor more dosely foe Rus- 
sian oil shipments that are 
pasting along foe Danube 
into Serbia. The sanction bust- 
ers are resorting to simple 
tricks, mainly using lake end- 
user certificates that suggest 
the goods are destined for 
republics other than Serbia or 
Montenegro. Serbian tanker 
trucks frequently change their 


licence plates to Bosnian ones 


country to pick up a load of 
fueL 

Belgrade-controlled com- 
panies have also set up dum- 
my subsidiaries in Bosnia and 
Macedonia, neither of whkh 
is subject to the embargo that 
was imposed in June, to 
acquire petroleum products 
and other goods. One mea- 
sure that wffl be taken during 
the course of the London 
conference is the setting up of 
a European customs team to 
watch over all crossing points 
into Serbia. 

The sanctions are, however, 
beginning to bite in Serbia. 
The country is already suffer- 
ing from hyper-inflation and 
industrial chaos. It does not 
take much to make matters 
worse. Half a million people 
will have to be laid off work 
within a month or so. A 
shortage of raw materials and 
component parts is forcing 
marry industries to dose down. 
According to Belgrade radio, 
up to 250,000 Serb workers 
have already been sent on 
compulsory leave because 
their firms and factories have 
no work for them. Up to 


700,000 people are registered 
as unemployed. The hardest 
hit is Serbia's metal industry, 
with barely one in three em- 
ployees stffi w or k i n g. In the 
textile and chemical industries 
the situation is much the 
same. When sanctums were 
imposed the Serbian govern- 
ment optimistically forecast 
that they would not last longer 
than two or three months. In 
any case, foe government tried 
to reassure the population that 
.the Serbian economy would 
be strong enough to weather 
foe sanctions- 

“life this winter is going to 
be extremely uncomfortable 
for Serbia,” Douglas Hogg, 
foe Foreign Office minister, 
said last week- This is probably 
correct Petrol rationing limits 
motorists to about five gallons 
a month. The average month- 
ty wage has Men to about 
£19. Medical supplies are 
running short partly because 
medicines used to be supplied 
by Croatia and parfly because 
of the UN-imposed ban on 
imports. It is oil sanctions that 
are potentially most harmful, 
stowing down industry and 
almost certainly leading to the 
rationing of heating fuel for 
homes this winter. 

But in other respects it is 
very difficult to put economic 
pressure on Serbia. It easily 
feeds itself, thanks partly to 
capturing the cornfields of 
eastern Croatia, and it still 
exports electrical power. 
Moreover, the army has sub- 
stantial fuel reserves. Croat 
economists calculate that sanc- 
tions would have to last for at 
least another year, and be 
tightly enforced, to make a 
lasting political, rather than 



pairing appeal: Haris Sflajdzic, the Bosnian foreign minister, preparing address, the press in London yesterday on the eve of the 
ugoslav peace conference. He says it is time for action before there are no Bosnians left, arid rejects the carving-up of his republic 


Bosnian Muslims find little hope 
in squalor that passes for home 


From Adam Lebok in karlovac, Croatia 


From Robert Seely in kraiste 


ONCE Kariovac sports ball 
resounded to the cheers of 
team fans. But rivalry between 
opponents in what was Yugo- 
slavia has since taken a mur- 
derous turn, with victories 


notched up by opposing ar- 
mies instead of sportsmen. 


personal, impact As tong as 
the Serbian media are tightly 
controlled, foe Belgrade re- 
gime can encourage foe opin- 
ion that the country's 
economic problems are solely 
the responsibility of a rich, and 
crod West In feet, foe econo- 
my is mainly suffering from 
chronic mismanagement, 
over-centralisation, tight bu- 
reaucratic control, widespread 
official corruption and a very 
expensive war. 


Diary, page 10 
Letters, page 11 


mies instead of sportsmen. 

The battered building, 
which took direct hits during 
the Yugoslav federal army and 
Serb bombardment of Karlo- 
vac at foe start of this year, has 
become home to 620 refugees. 
Most are Bosnian Muslims, 
nearly all women and child- 
ren. their men returned to 
fight or work in Bosnia. 

The buflding’s windows 
have been shot out, foe floor is 
lined with grubby mattresses 
and bedding and foe air in the 
hall is stale. Beams of sunlight 
cut a path through the swhis 
of tobacco smoke. 

A few children play, women 


sit talkmg and in one far 
comer, a wizened old lady 
grimaces in pain as foe tifes to 
move on ber m a tt ress. She 
makes a pitiful sight 

For tire younger refugees 
the hours drag endlessly- “I 
don't know how tong we can 
stand it here,” said Eniira. 
cradling her 12-day-oki baby 
Nada. “A baby has already 
died in this halL But l don't 
complain." In some ways 
Emira and her husband 
Mustafa and son Daud are 
among foe lucky ones. They 
lost everything when they left 
Sarajevo on foot through -the 
woods.They do not know 
where their relatives are — or 
even whether they are alive — 
but they have eadi other. 

Once a market trader, 


Mustafa starts to ay ashe 
describes the family and life he 
left behind in Sarajevo. “Our 
house was blown up on foe 
first day of the bombardment 
We have lost everything. I 
haven't spoken to my family 
for three months. I just hope 
there wifi be a chance to go 
abroad and work and start 
again.” 

Home for Mustafa, his wife 
and children is now a few bags 
of belongings and a bit of 
floor-space. There are eight 
to Bets that all the refugees 
share, and many people bathe 
in the nearby rivers. ; 

“Labod", 40. a MusHm 
former fighter who was too 
frightened to give his real 
name, remarked.- “Tbe'pohti- . 
dans in London should come 
here and see. None o£ them 
■can know what is happening 
until they do." 


RIFAP Khodja. 34, an ethnic 
Albanian farmer, pointed to 
.foe bullet boles in his two- 
storey bride barn. His build- 
ing was fired upon, be said, by 
a group of Serbian policemen. 
“We have done nothing bad to 
anybody, I do not . know why 
they attacked " 

Others in Kraiste, a Kosovo 
village of peasant smallhold- 
ings ringed by fields of sun- 
flowers and corn, have also 
been targeted by the Serb- 
controDed militia. Several of 
foe villagers have been beaten 
andofooshave received regtt 
larrisfafrom the police. 

ife' Bbiiie of Yusuf Kod- 
rakrea pensioner, was also 
shor-at by .fair menu,; "They 
wapst-to exert pressure bn me. 
Myron isr a member of ah 
A^^^potit ical party" Mr 

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MARTIN Bell, the BBCs 
veteran war coinspondent. 
yesterday became the latest 
journalist to get caught in the 
crossfire while covering the 
war in Yugoslavia when be 
was wounded by mortar 
shrapnel in Sarajevo. 

Mflliom of tefeviskm view- 
ers saw pictures of foe journal- 
ist writhing on foe ground 
after be was hit Bel was 


A respected British TV correspondent has joined foe 
lengthening list of journalist casualties of foe conflict 
Mefinda Wittstock, (Kir Media Correspondent, writes 


heard saying calmly: “Okay, 
IH survive. I am alive." 


IH survive. I am alive." 

Befl. 53. was taken immed- 
iately to a United Nations 
field hospital, where two 
pieces of shrapnel were re- 
moved from his stomach and 


Zagreb, and was expected in 
London early today after 
bemp flown from Zagreb in a 
medteafly equipped plane sent 
by the BBC A BBC doctor 
and John Mahoney, the for- 
eign news editor, were an the 
plane. 

Fighting in foe former Yu- 


groin. In a stable condition, 
he was evacuated later bv the 


goslav republics has claimed 
foe lives or 27 journalists since 


he was evacuated later by the 
RAF to the Croatian « pfat. 


the lives of 27 journalists since 
foe start (rfhosfflitfesJastyear. 
and foe International Federa- 


tion of Journalists said yester- 
day that at least three times 
that number had been 
wounded or injured. 

Bril, who has covered 1 1 
wars but had never before 
been injured, narrowly mis- 
sed being hit as he did a live 
interview for BBC Breoiftist 
News’ in April 

Last week an ITN camera 
crew, inducting Nigel Thom- 
son. foe husband of the news- 


reader Carol Barnes, and Jim 
Dutton, a sound recordist, 
were injured in a. mortar 
attack in Sarajevo. Sebastian 
Rich, an ITN cameraman, 
recently lost the hearing in 
cous ear after a rocket-pro- 
pelled grenade hit a window 
frame in a room of the 
Sarajevo Holiday Inn and 
sent a glass shazd through his 
jaw. David Chater, now ITN's 
royal correspondent, was shot 
in foe bade by a sniper in 
Croatia last November. 

Tony Hafl. foe BBCs direc- 
tor of news and current af- 
fairs. said yesterday. "Martin 
Bell is one of foe finest 
televirion reporters of his gen- 
eration. He has a personal 
commitment to tdfing the 


story in what was Yugoslavia 
and is our longest-serving 
journalist in that area. He is 
meticulous in his thinking 
about his safety and the safety 
of others.” 

Bell, who has a reputation 
for never sending a crew 
anywhere he would not go. 
was appointed OBE earner 
this year in the Birthday 
Honours but was unable to 
attend the investiture at . Buck- 
ingham Palace because be 
could not get a flight from 
Bosnia. 

Befl. who was wearing a 
' flak jacket and a “luefy'* white 
ant, had driven yesterday 
morning to central Sarajevo 
to monitor an outbreak of. 
mortar fire and was outside 


foe Marshal :TQto barracks, 
whfcfx.is used bjpUN troops as 
well £&s Musum and Croat 
foroes^when hflwas hft. 

Cdjfoicl Matkvook of foe 
10fttfGbrkba=Mpkas, who 


is in -Sarajevo as-ronunander 
of tfre-British UN^fotingent 
wasvwfoBeft H&fi&I BBC1V 
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mj UlW WW Ilfc l 4WIMMW •mVIhU 

landing among ns and I 
looked up and fotmd he had 


been bit and was lying on the 
ground." . . j. 

Last night, John Major, foe 
prime minister; wrfjte to Bell 
wiriting.him a speSdy recov- 
ery, anti to Marmadukfi 
Hussey, foe BBC cbairmaa 



Photograph page 14 


David Chater hit by 

snarer fire last year 




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indicts 


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that he 


4ram'lfe former East Ger- 
;■ mar^ioeiading those respon- 
sible for^jfeieriter Gufflaume, 
foe agent who brought down 
the B w e ynra att of foe West 
German: ChahceBor. Wifly 
Brandt, m 1974. . 

*"Ttie mdBctramts. are an 
impiEtftafit legal step against 
foe mice ■ mighty intelligence 
chiefs of .East' Berfin. Howev- 
er, Marius Wolf, foe former 
dritf spymastez; is still under 
tmeffigatton and has not been 
irpfttodL , 

Despite the Investigations 
■and ffiarges.- it is still not 
^Bm 'iiifoiefoer framer East 
Geqman spies can be ptteon 
trite for carrying out their 
ordos. The German supreme 
court has been asked to rule on 
foe question, but has not 


issuedany detiskm. (APj 

Armenia plea 


Yerevan: President Ter- 
Petrossian of Armenia re- 
quested Britain. America and 
Germany to put pressure on 
Azerbaijan to end fighting 
over foe endave of Nagorno- 
Karabakh after Azerbaijani 
"fighters bombed two towns 
nwffi of Stepanakert (AFP) 


Serb extremists target 
Albanian peasants 


'Quick’ doses 


Beriin: The German weekly 
magazine Quick, whose 
breay editorial recipe made it 
a symbol of West Germany's 
renewal after foe second worid 
war, is to dose this week after 
43 years of publication, its 
owners announced. (AFP) 


Five arrested 


Kosovo could become the next 
target of large-scale depopula- 
tion. The province's future is to 
be discussed today in London. 
Cteariy, to force out nearly two 
million people — 90 per cent 
of foe Kosovo population is 
Albanian —would be difficult 
But Kosovo is considered by 
. most Serbs as an integral part 

of their geography. 

The isolated incidents of 
armed attacks are seen as a 
sign that measures to shift foe 
populations are due The poli- 
cy was sucoessffo m Bosnia ou. 

account of Western apathy. 
Dozens are leaving. : . some 
beading fix: Albania, some for 
other European countries. 
■pLtafi action is not so overt as 
in Bosnia, but the aim seems 
snrutor," MrKhodja said. 


Venice: The Christian Demo- 
crat regional secretary was 


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beaten 

taught 


among five people arrested 
here as part of an enquiry hitn 


here as part of an enquiry hi to 
corruption, a judicial source 
said. In addition, foe vice- 
president of Treviso province 
was jailed on corruption 
charges with two other 




officials. (AFP) 

Greeks strike 

Athens: Greek transport work- 

era launched a week of strikes 
that wfll involve bank, tele- 
phone, water, electricity, post 
■ television and Olympic 
Airways employees in protest 
against the conservative gov- 
ernment’s austerity pro- 
gramme. (Reuteij 


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Poland objects 

War saw: Poland strongly pro- 
tested at a decision by German 
authorities to extradite to the 
United States four Poles 
charged with illegal aims trad- 
ing. They allegedly agreed to 
sell arms to American agents 
posing as buyers for Iraq. (AP) 


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Sex change 

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 

German politic ans demand riot enquiry 

Citizens of Rostock 


By Ian Murray in rostock and Our Foreign Staff 


skinheads are the heroes 

of the moment among many 
ordinary people on Rostock's 
Uchtenhagen estate. Pension- 
ers. housewives, and the un- 
employed all seem to think the 
extreme right-wing rowdies 
have done an excellent job 
over three days and nights in 
forcing the authorities to move 

out more than 200 Romanian 
gypsies who had been lodged 
m an 1 1 -storey Mock of flats 
while waiting to have their 
refugee status checked. 

Wemer Scheferiing, an un- 
employed shipyard worker, 
said: “We’ve been trying to get 
them oui by democratic 
means for months. We wrote 
letters to the council complain- 
ing about the terrible mess 
they make. We asked the 
police to arrest them for camp- 
ing on the green. We asked for 
our rent to oe reduced because 
of all the nuisance we had to 
endure. Nobody listened to ns. 
And then the ‘skins’ ramp 
They got them out" 

He gazed hatefully at Sun- 
flower House with its yellow 
mural and the gutted windows 
of the hostel that was set alight 


f > 
GERMANY . 


earjy yesterday when the 
police left the scene after 20 
hours of sporadic battles with 
the youths. 

Rosa, a plump middle-aged 
housewife, aid: “We are not 
racist We don’t hate foreign- 
ers. We just hate people who 
urinate on the stairways.” 

The stoty is the same all 
around from the local citizens 
who cheered and applauded 
as the skinheads fought run- 
ning battles with the- police 
and hurled abuse and stones 
at the Romanian gypsies in 
the hosteL 

In the supermarket nearby 
they complain that shoplifting 

Georgians 

threaten 

onslaught 

From Bruce Clark -■ 

IN MOSCOW 

A GEORGIAN commander 
has threatened to launch an 
onslaught today on the sepa- 
ratist Abkhazian community’s 
forces unless Vladislav Ardzm- 
ba, their leader, steps down. 

The threat -to attack 
Gudauta, which has become ' 
the Abkhazian headquarters 
since Georgian troops entered 
the northwestern region of the 
republic in force on August 
14, may be intended to pre- 
empt the arrival of volunteers 
from southern Russia to bade 
the separatist cause. The ulti- 
matum was made by Colonel 
Gia KarkarashviH after two 
soldiers were shot during an 
exchange of prisoners. 

Thousands of fighters from 
the warrior races that inhabit 
the northern dopes- of the 
Caucasus mountains are sign- 
ing up to invade Georgia and 
reverse moves by Eduard 
Shevardnadze, the Georgian 
leader, to assert control over 
the coastal region, according 
to local warlords. Abkhazian 
fjphiprs also claim to have 
killed more than 40 Georgian 
soldiers in two days of fighting 

around Sukhumi and Gagra. 

The Confederation of 
Mountain Peoples of the 
Caucasus, a shadowy year-old 
alliance bdween the small 
Muslim regions in the ex- 
treme south of Russia, bas 
declared Tbilisi, the Georgian 
capital, a disaster area and 
threatens to launch a cam- 
paign of terrorism there. A 
document signed by the con-, 
federation's leaders, and pub- 
lished in yesterdays Russian 
press, ordered all local chief- 
tains inthc northern Caucasus •, 
to send fighters and “repel the 
aggressor in Abkhazia. It 
said all ethnic Georgians fiv- ; 
ing in the semi-independent 
regions of southern Russia 
forming die confederation 
should be viewed as hostage. 

The strength of the confed- 
eration’s forces is hard to 
a<ji{SRsw. but its threats have 
caused alarm in Tbilisi. Mr 
Shevardnadze has said that 
the elections planned for Octo- 
ber 1 2 may be imperilled. _ 

The threats are also ca using 
concern in Russia. If Moscow 
proves unable to stop the 
Muslim regions from taking 
nuKtaiy action against Geop 
gia. that could set an ominous 
precedent for other regions of 
Russia which are straining at 
the leash. 


has gone up sharply. Women 
say they, are afraid togo home 
at night for fear of being 
molested. Everywhere rhe 
complaint is that the foreign^ 
ets have been forced into the 
community without anything 
being done to safeguard local 
people. 

In the dry's market square 
yesterday - afternoon trade 
unions held a rally against 
xenophobia. However. Hans 
Oranski remarked: “These 
people just don't know what 
they are talking about It’s afl 
very well for these pofitiriaos 
and trade unionists to criticise 
us but they don’t live next door 
to them. They don't have to 
pul up whh the mess.” 

The offices of a newspaper 
that first repeated that it had 
received an anonymous phone 
call from a group claiming to 
represent the interests of the 
estate’s community and prom- 
ising to resolve the matter were 
attacked yesterday. Tire win- 
dows were broken; police 
believe anarchists may be re- 
sponsible and fear there could 
be a dash between than and 
the skinheads. More riot 
police were brought in during 
the afternoon to guard against 
further trouble. 

The neo-Nazis appear to 
have been extremely well- 
organised. Only a small group 
of local skinheads took part in 
the first demonstration on i 
Saturday evening but the pob- ; 
lidty this attracted brought in 
reinforcements on the next ; 
two days from many parts of ; 
Germany. "Some were using \ 
walkie-talkies to issue com- 
mands and give tips -about: 
police manoeuvres: 

The local state parliament is 
bolding an urgent enquiry 
into what happened amid 
criticism that fire police failed 
to do their job property. Many 
German politicians demand- 
ed an explanation as to wfry 
police withdrew from the hos- 
tel for around an hour, allow- 
ing gangs to storm file 
evacuated building and set the 
first floor alight, Hexr 
Schefferling, on the other 
band, is convinced they did 
their job only too weC. “Irjust 


Russians 
onroad 
to envy 

Charwomen 
are lusting 
hopelessly for 
Western cars, 
writes Maiy 
Dejevsky 


IN A northern suburb of 
Moscow, deep in the forest . 
of ornamental structures 
that make up the old 
Soviet Union’s defunct Ex- 
hibition of Economic 
Achievements, is hidden-a 
glass and concrete build- 
ing that for a few brief 
days this week will be a 
temple to that very West- 
ern god, the motor car. 

This is the first interna- 
tional motor Show in Mos- 
cow, surrounded with all 
the customary razzmatazz 
of its Western counter- 
parts, whihHiiifl the 
prira models of most West- 
ern producers. It is not, 
however, the first motor 
■show ever held in Russia. 
Strictiy speaking, it is the 
fifth; tire fourth was hdd 
in St Petersburg in 1913, 
and the first in 1907, and 
the organisers are proud 
to think they are reviving a 
tradition and returning 
Russia to the world. . 

Yesterday the day be- 
fore the official opening, 
wide-eyed Russian con- 
struction workers and 
even widerreyed Russian 
cleaning ladies wandered 
in a' dream world of blue 
carpets, soft Western rock 
music and sleek, shiny 
Western cars. “If only, if 
only. I could have one of 
those just for a moment,” 
said one of the cleaners. 
“But there’s not a hope.” . 

• With a price of $29,000 
(£14,500) for a second- 
hand Mercedes, more 
than 60 times the average 
anrmg»l salary, most Rus- 
sians will have to be con- 
tent with looking. There 
wffl be buyers, however, 
individuals; joint 'venture 
compfijries.'S* number of 
new Mercedes and Vdvos 
with Russian registration 
plates has increased in the 
past, year from almost 
nothing to several 


L&T section, page 4 




seems wrong to see German 
police protea foreigners from 
Germans,” he said. 

The opposition Social Dem- 
ocrats in Bonn have called for 
an emergency session of the 
Bundestag _tp debate what 
happened. The party itself is 
now considering removing its 
objection m changes in the 
constitution that would allow 
asy lum -se ek ers from countries 
such as Romania to be pre- 
vented from entering the 
country as refugees. 

Politicians oiaD parties con- 
demned the Rostock violence 
and said it was shameful that 
the rioters had been cheered 
on fry thousands of local 
people. Hans-Rolf Goebel of 
the Free Democrats, said: 
“Pictures are. going around 
the world which recall quite a 
different Germany,” a refer- 
ence to Nazi pogroms against 
Jews. Narbert Blum, the 
Christian Democrat labour 
minister, said: “Germany's 
reputation is ax stake.” 

Leading artide, page II 



EUROPEAN NEWS 9 


PEOPLE 


Wife makes call for 
Honecker release 


Hounded out: a Romanian mother and her children being escorted by police to a bos 
leaving Rost ode after neo-Nazi attacks forced the closure of a refugee hostel 


\ Margot Honedttr. the wife of 
1 the former East German lead- 
er Erich Honecker, who is 
imprisoned in Germany’s 
Moabit jail, launched a fer- 
vent plot in Chile for his 
immediate release on legal 
and humanitarian grounds. 

Frau Honecker arrived in 
Chile to stay with her daughter 
— who married a former 
Chilean exile to the then East 
Germany — on July 31, im- 
mediately after Chilean em- 
bassy staff handed her 
husband over to German au- 
thorities for trial In a packed 
and chaotic press conference 
scheduled to coincide with 
Herr Ho Decker's 80th birth- 
day. die called on “all mem- 
bers of those governments 
who sustained political rela- 
tions with my husband, and 
all those people . . . who think 
and feel in a humanistic 
fashion, to demand his free- 
dom, without limitations”. 

□ 

Charges of soliciting a man for 
sex haw been withdrawn 
against Australian Anglican 
Bishop Owen Dowling. 57. a 
prosecutor said. Bishop Dowl- 
; ing denied a police allegation 
that he tried to solicit an off- 


duty policeman for prostitu- 
tion at a park in Bendigo, a 
town in the stale of Victoria 
The bishop retires at the end 
of the year. 

□ 

Romania has asked Hungary 
to extradite the former com- 
munist security police boss 
Alexandra Draghiti. 76. to 
stand trial on death charges, 
the justice minister, Mircea 
lonescu-Quintus. said, 

□ 

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Haitian journalist who was 
imprisoned and tortured by 
the country's military rulers, 
has won a 1 992 “Freedom to 
Write Award" from Pen, the 
worldwide writers’ associ- 
ation, in New York. The 
award was presented to him 
by Marianne Wiggins, the 
American novelist and former 
wife of Salman Rushdie, the 
British author in hiding after 
Iranian death threats. 


Abbas Hamadi. 32, one of 
two Lebanese brothers jailed 
in Germany on terrorism 
charges, may be freed by 
Christmas, his doctor said. 


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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST26 1992 


Texts for 
bad times 

Michael Wright on 
a thrifty trend to 
bargain paperbacks 


J ust now times may be hard, but they 
are not half so hard as they were in 
1 935 when Allen Lane launched his 
pioneering series of Penguin paperbacks. 
People do not buy books in recessions. 
Oh, they browse, they re-read, they 
borrow. But they rarely part with the 
spondulicks: not unless the book is dirt 
cheap. And Penguins, at a mere sixpence 
each, were just that They were 
revolutionary. 

Now comes another recession, and- 
with h another revolution. This time it is 
classic fiction at a quid a throw. In other 
words, A Christmas Carol is cheaper 
than most greetings cards and Joyce’s 
Dubliners will set you back less than a 
pint of Guinness. Last year Dover began 
to bring oat its Thrift editions for a dollar 
apiece (95p in Britain), and last month 
Wordsworth Classics started churning 
out heftier tomes for just a pound. 1 1 is not 
as if paperback classics were inaccessibly 
expensive before. On the contrary, the 
reader has been well served by the likes of 
Penguin Classics. World's Classics, and 
Eveiyman Paperbacks, which between 
them offer an eclectic range of titles that 
no bucket-shop publisher relying on 
massive print-runs could hope to match. 

T hese big boys are battling it out for 
domination of a growing student 
market, relying on the heavy 
artillery of their erudite" introductions and 
the small-arms fire of their “Notes on the 
Text". But when it comes to “soft classics” 
— your Jane Austens, your Hardys and | 
your Brontes — the pound-a-time people 
are beginning mop up, offering texts that 
are no more or less reliable than those of 
their competitors, at a fraction of the cost, 
and without all the critical material. 

All too often, the introductions, notes 
and bibliographies offered In paperback 
classics do more harm than good, 
alienating the general reader with a 
musty-dusty whin of academe, holding 
out a false sense of “this is all ye need to 
know” security to the A-level nail-biter, 
while falling short of the depth required 
by the serious student 
As Paul Keegan, editorial director of 
Penguin Classics, puts it ''We've become 
over-protective, applying a kind of Nat- 
ional Trust conservationism to the 
classics which can often seem ridiculous. 
Classics publishing has become set in 
certain ritualistic procedures which don’t 
necessarily bear any relation to anything. 
Most people start reading a book, and if 
they like it. they'll read ft. They don't need 
contextuaLisation, they don’t need to be 
led by the hand. I think there is no need 
for introductions at all. And notes are 
uniformly done badly.” 

S uch honesty is reassuring after 
listening to the adamantine cer- 
tainties of other editorial directors, 
that students simply could not do without 
the critical baggage shovelled out for 
them. They dismiss the possibility of the 
new super-cheap editions posing much 
threat to their market share. “Our proper 
editions won't try to compete with theirs,” 
declares Hilary Laurie at Everyman. 
“And do booksellers want to sell books for 
a pound?" 

David Taylor, buying and marketing 
manager for Blackwell’s, dearly does. “As 
far as we’re concerned, anything that 
makes people buy and read more books 
has got to be a good thing.” The sales 
figures for Wordsworth Classics are 
aertainly convincing, with more than 
700.000 copies already sold, and sold 
fast In Yorkshire, for instance, 4.000 
copies of Wulhering Heights went in 
two days. That's not bad going for a 
book that has already been on the market 
for 145 years. 


As peace talks begin in London, two writers ask if there is hope of the West finding a solution 

No end to a Balkan disaster 


P eace conferences are 
grand events. The food 
is usually excellent (the 
menus from Versailles in 
1 9 1 S are collector's items) and the 
conversation is rarely boring. The 
London talks on the future of 
Yugoslavia should therefore have 
made for an interesting spectacle, 
as butchers, victims and diplomats 
sit down at the same table. But the 
likelihood is that it will be merely a 
series of poorly digested dinners 
and tantrums rather than deals. 

The reason is that peace confer- 
ences should occur at the end of 
war, at a point of exhaustion and 
surrender. This one is being 
staged in the thick of war, and 
some of the participants have 
barely had time to pur on a dean 
shirt The Serbs are smug, having 
captured 70 per cent of Bosnia. 
The Croats still consider them- 
selves in a state of wan fo^ too 
have grabbed Bosnian land and 
are planning ways to retake the 
territory they lost to Serbia last 
year. The Bosnian Muslims have 
launched a counter offensive and 
are searching the arms bazaars of 
the Arab world for new weapons. 
This is hardly a basis for peace: 
more of a half-time break. 

The optimists say that since 
Serbia's appetite has been sated, it 
win now stop fighting. Since Ser- 
bian aggression started the war. 
there is now scope for ending ic 
the UN can be installed to keep the 
guns silent and protect minorities. 


The Muslims can be persuaded to 
use diplomacy to regain some of 
their lost territory. 

The pessimists argue thkt the 
London conference is doomed to 
legitimise the carve-up of Bosnia 
Hercegovina, that there is no other 
formula than "land for peace". 
Such a peace, however, would be 
illusory and would merely fuel 
further war. The Muslim fighters 
are moving into high gear they 
are being robbed not only of land, 
but of their state. And even if the 
guns were to foil silent, Serbia 
would soon face a fresh war 
against the Albanians of Kosovo. 

This is what the pessimists say. 
and they have already been proved 
right several times during this 
war. That does not mean a thirty 
years' war is inevitable, but it is 
important to listen to the pessi- 
mists and draw quick conclusions. 
Again and again European and 
UN diplomacy has been wrong- 
footed by events in the Balkans. 
Should we have recognised Cro- 
atia and Slovenia more quickly? 
Should we have recognised them 
separately, forcing Zagreb first to 
make concessions to the Serb 
minority? Almost every step taken 
by the West has come too late. 
Sanctions were imposed on Serbia 
after giving it three months or 
more to build up stocks. Western 
military intervention was not 
threatened in April — when it 
might have stopped the Serbian 
advance in Bosnia — but is 


Will the West 


dare to fight? 

Without a clear strategy, pious 
censure of Serbia means nothing 


T he Western delegates 
at today’s international 
peace conference on the 
Yugoslav crisis have an 
unenviable task. After a succession 
of broken ceasefires, ineffective EC 
troikas and inconclusive confer- 
ences under, die chairmanship of 
Lord Carrington, not to mention 
thousands of dead and hundreds 
of thousands “ethnically clean- 
sed”. few can be optimistic that the 
conference will do anything to 
reconcile the bitter opponents in 
tiie Balkan war. So far, calling the 
conference has exacerbated the 
crisis, encouraging the Serbs to 
consolidate into a fait accompli 
what they have conquered and 
“cleansed”, and pushing the Bos- 
nian government into a counter- 
attack to give credence to its claims 
to represent a viable entity. 

The Yugoslav participants may 
be forgiven for wondering what it 
is that their hosts want from them. 
Western leaders such as George 
Bush and John Major have de- 
plored the violence in Yugoslavia, 
but they have wavered over what 
they consider to be a solution and 
what they might contribute to ft. 
At first. America and the Europe- 
an Community seemed united in 
opposing Slovene and Croatian 
secession from Yugoslavia. In the 
distant days of June and July 
1 99 1 , the decaying Soviet colossus 


still straggled to preserve its unity 
and President Bush did not want 
to precipitate its collapse by en- 
dorsing Balkan disintegration. 

Mr Bush's foreign policy has 
been underpinned by a doctrine 
committing the West to uphold 
the status quo. Hence he was not 
prepared to see Iraq disappear 
from the map. even though he had 
fought to restore Kuwait But the 
Yugoslav crisis has thwarted his 
conservative instincts. Greater Ser- 
bia is as much a novelty as poor 
Bosnia, and a great deal more 
destabilising. Saddam Hussein’s 
threat to the stillborn New World 
Order was that of the classic tyrant 
conqueror, while Slobodan Milos- 
evic is tiie model of a post- 
communist threat: he has 
demonstrated to the unhappy 
nomenklatura around the globe 
how to survive the collapse of 
communism and prosper. 

Much is made of how confusing 
the successive wars have been in 
the Balkans: it is difficult to know 
whose side we should be on, and 
easy for us to forget after the neat 
divisions of the Cold War that this 
state of confusion usually reigned 
in the past, not least in the 1 930s. 
Aggressors rarely lads for argu- 
ments to support their actions. 

Western diplomats have always 
been on hand to retail them to 
their governments, and the victim 


Arming Bosnia may prolong the 
war but produce a just outcome 


suggested now, in August, when 
the Serbs have already snatched 
what drey want There is no point 
in attacking now unless as part of 
a full-scale war against Serbia. 

With all three parties — Serbia. 
Croatia and Bosnia — on a war 
footing, diplomacy is condemned 
to failure. There are some useful 
humanitarian tasks to accomplish, 
such as feeding and sheltering the 
two million refugees during the 
winter, and the conference will 
score a limited success if it can win 
a measure of protection for these 
hapless victims; but the best the 
diplomats can hope to do at the 
moment is to ameliorate the symp- 
toms of war. and to lower the level 
of violence by a UN presence. 

The UN has not been veiy 
successful in Croatia — where it 
"protects" three disputed regions 
— and is even less useful in Bosnia. 


Far from welcoming the blue hel- 
mets. the residents of Sarajevo are 
profoundly angry with them. The 
popular perception is that thqr 
squat in their white armoured 
vehicles and do nothing when ten 
yards away a sniper shoots down 
yet another housewife. 

A n expanded UN trustee- 
ship taking over the 
whole of Bosnia might 
just worts, but by the time 
it was established, financed and 
authorised by the world commun- 
ity. the Serbs might well have com- 
pleted their ethnic deansing and 
carried the war elsewhere. 

The great advantage of a UN 
“solution" to the Bosnian war is 
that everybody could promptly 
forget about the Balkans, shifting 
their attention again to Maas- 
tricht, and grumble when the UN 


bin ' arrived. ’Hie UN option, 
however, is a substitute for real 
political decisions. Indeed some 
Croats call it “the aspirin sol- 
ution", little more than a cure for a 
headache. The choice fertile Wert 
is plain: do we allow Bosnia 
‘Herzegovina to be chopped up. in 
the hope that tins will keep the 
Serbs and the Croats quiet: or do 
we help Bosnia to regain its state, 
which has after all been recog- 
nised by the European Communi- 
ty and the United States? The 
morally correct decision is obvious, 
butnobody in the West has a taste 
for war on behalf of Bosnia. 

Yet there is another possibility: 
to supply weapons and instructors 
quickly to Bosnia. Both Britain 
and America have expressed 
qualms about this, arguing that 
there are already too many weap- 
ons in the region. But the point is 
to give Bosnia the opportunity to 
fight for itself. The UN arms 
embargo currently bars any such 
deliveries. A decision to re-arm 
Bosnia, as Lady Thatcher has 
suggested, would be a gamble 


needing firm teaderchip and no 
queasiness. 

Aiming Bosnia would certainly 
prolong tiie war, but it would also 
increase the chances of a just 
conclusion and demonstrate that 
the West wifi resist all attempts to 
change frontiers by force. And 
since it would save our soldiers, it 

would satisfy those who are pres- 
ently arguing that we should 
forget the Balkans: Arming the 
Bosnians, say diplomats, is “con- 
troversial”. but it is no more so 
than the sub nm financing, 
training and arming of the Mus- 
lim rebels in Afghanistan. 

President Alija Lzetbegovic will 
be asking fen 1 guns at the London 
talks. If me West toms him down 
he will certainty turn to Iran and 
other Middle Eastern states. The 
West most tefl the Serbian leader- 
ship that unless ethnic deansing 
ends immediately, ft will supply 
weapons to Bosnia. This may not 
sound like the conciliatory phrase- 
ology of a peace conference, but 
the feet is that there is no peace. 
Thewarrageson and the time has 
come to take sides. There is 
already blood on the tabledoth. 

Roger Boyes 


—to 



JsStS* , , 


Peace has no chance: Serbian aggression as seen by Frankfurter AHgemeine Zeitung 


of aggression is rarefy self-evident- 
ly saintly: Poland was not a haven 
of demoatuy or racial tolerance in 
1939, but it certainly was by 
comparison with Nan Germany. 
In 1 935, was it not possible that 
Haile Selassie’s half-naked tribes-, 
men had provoked Mussolini’s 
tanks and bombers? 

Even in 1938, voices were 
raised about the boorish behav- 
iour of the Czechs towards the 
Sudeten Germans, who in any 
case had a "democratic” right to 
join up with Nazi Germany if that 
is what they wanted. Sixty years 
ago, conferences were hdd and 
the League of Nations passed 
resolutions imposing arms embar- 
goes on both aggressor and victim. 
Aggressors, however, always find 
friends, anxious to curry favour 
and deflect their ambitions, and 
willing to help bypass sanctions. 


Today’s sanctions-breakers are 
motivated partly fay profit and 
partly by sympathy with Mr 
Milosevic, but al») by fear of what 
the Serbian army might do next 
They have seen the ease with 
which a few gunmen and their 
spokesmen can create a minority- 
rights issue out of a peaceable 
group of neighbours. 

The siren voices who urge 
inaction on tiie West and base, 
their case on an appeal to Balkan 
history have added to the confu- 
sion: they talk glibly of ageold 
tribal wars and recall with ap- 
proval the days when the jingoes 
in this country sided with the 
Sultan’s bashi-bazooks in the 
1870s and were prepared to fight 
for the Ottoman Empire. 

No policy of active involvement 
in a war is without great risk, 
particularly when the war has 


been allowed to build up as much 
momentum as the current Balkan 
war. But to stand aside from tiie 
shambles in Bosnia invites farther 
trouble, and not just in the Bal- 
kans. Unlike the decaying Otto- 
man Empire of a century ago, 
which could still deal cruelly with 
its subjects but did not threaten its 
neighbours. Serbia* rulers and 
the nationalist passions they have 
stoked up and directed are hardly 
likefy to be sated by success. Those 
in the Foreign Office who hope 
that Mr Milosevic will calm down 
now he has most of what he wants 
are naive. His regime depends for 
its survival on finding new ene- 
mies to justify its existence and to 
silence interna! opposition. 

Throughout the world, not least 
in the former Soviet Union, the 
West's passivity in the face of 
Serbian conquests has been 


watched with astonishment The 
West* toleration of such violence 
on the very borders of tiie EC does 
not encourage faith in its commit- 
ment to tiie authority of interna- 
tional law farther afield. 

For 1 8 months. President Bush 
has dithered about whether Iraq's 
survival as a state is more impor- 
tant than toppling Saddam Hus- 
sein’s regime, complete with its 
ethnic deansing programme: The 
uncertainty foal has marked West- 
ern policy in dealing with the 
collapse of Yugoslavia, and its 
unwillingness to bring to bear its 
overwhelming power to impose a 
solution puts temptation in the 
path of oth&s faced try challenges 
to their power and privileges from 
ethnically divided populations. 

H ail-today's conference 
been for Nato and its 
Pacific-rim allies 
alone, it might have 
been much more useful. They 
should sit down together and work 
out what they wish to achieve, not 
only in Yugoslavia but throughout 
the world, and should agree a 
programme and on how to share 
out the costs in money and blood. 

Until the West is ready for 
action, pious denunciations of 
ethnic cleansing or military ag- 
gression will mean nothing. Until 
the West has worked out its aims 
and'a £Jear strategy to achieve 
them, peace conferences will be an 
expensive diversion, providing 
merely a comfortable vantage 
point from which to watch the 
business of war and conquest 

Mark Ajlmond 

The author is a fellow of the 
Institute for European Defence 
and Strategic Studies, London. 



...and moreover 

Alan Coren 


T o gentlemen in England 
now abed, the nub of this 
whole tacky business is 
doubtless the possibility that it 
may well have given a terminal 
shake to the foundations of the 
House of Windsor but let me tell 
them that up here at the 
shellshocked Kivieran front 
many another hitherto sturdy 
edifice is wincing as its bright 
stucco cracks and the Provencal 
tnes slide from its root For 
this time, it is we out here who 
think ourselves accurs’d, espe- 
cially if we do not hdd our 
manhoods cheap. 

Or. indeed, bold them at alL 
Now, my own current premises 
lie just a few miles along the 
azure coast from, if I may be 
permitted to switch Elizabe- 
thans. those topless towers where 
sweet Fergie was recently mak- 
ing herself immortal with a 
kiss, and while they may not 
be quite as swish as those 
which' attracted the attention of 
the Daily Mirror's property corr- 
espondent they do boast a 
delightful swimming pod sur- 
rounded' fry comfy loungers 
which — though a brace of fleshy 
rompers might find themselves 
sinking slowly groundwards to 
(he accompaniment of a some- 
what unromantic hiss — are 
more than adequate for the solo 
sunbather. Furthermore, the spot 
is seduded by oleander and 
bougainvillea, and the nearest 
houses lie half a mfle away, 
across the valfey. 

And now, a word or two about 
breakfast Every morning, exem- 
plary host that I am. I leap up as 
the first cicada salutes the rising 


sun, and run down to the village 
to buy croissants for the still- 
snoring household. English 
guests all they cry that that is 
one of the gn rat things about 
France, mmm. fresh croissants, 
mrara, delicious . . . they then 
nibble a corner, scattering the 
rest into a thousand flakes which 
float down so that a million 
waiting ants, having formed 
fours in the garden in anticipa- 
tion of a scent on the breeze, may 
begin marching into the house 
with the unnerving precision of 
the Waffen SS, thereby giving me 
the opportunity to spend much of 
the rest of the day fruitfully 
engaged with aerosol and dust- 
pan instead of frittering it away 
by the pooL 

I do not mind this at all 
because of the two joyous bonus- 
es which go with croissant- 
fetching. The first is that I am 
eariy enough to get my hands on 
one of the handful of English 
newspapers which dawn brings 
to our focal shop, and the second 
is that I can get back home in 
time not only to have my morn- 
ing swim but thereafter to dry off 
on a floating li-to, reading the 
paper before the mob have had 
the chance to reduce ft to a 
tattered wodge made illegible fay 
a combination of sun-oil and the 
dismembered parts oflarge swat- 
ted things which seem always to 
have their dogs popped in the 
middle of particularly crucial 
paragraphs. 

And moreover, tile most exqui- 
site dement of all is that the 
swim is nude. I do not intend to 
bang on anent the components of 
that exquisiteness, but I would 


just say that it is not exclusively 
sensual: pottering naked through 
dawn-dappled water not only 
puts the swimmer in pantheistic 
touch with darting lizard and 
rising lark, it allows him an 
atavistic glimpse of that brief 
pre-lapsarian time before the 
snake slithered down the tree 
and brought bathing trunks into 
the world. 

At least it did until last 
Monday. Last Monday. I hurried 
home with croissants and The 
Sunday Times, stripped off 
hurled myself into the pool and 
duly emerged to lie supine on 
the air bed and relish the news 
from home. And where would the 
expatriate first turn for this 
but to the "News Review’’ sec- 
tion? And where but there would 
he see two photographs demon- 
strating what may be done with 
what the caption described as an 
800mm tens with a 2x converter? 

And what would he do then? 

He world immediately put 
The Sunday Times to a use for 
which it was not primarily de- 
signed. For by turning bis head 
a fraction, he could see the hill- 
top horses half a mile away, 
and suddenly half a mile was 
a very short distance indeed. And 
who could say where Daniel 
Angeli might be today, telephoto 
in one hand, cellphone in the 
other? I cannot of course esti- 
mate my value, my line to' tiie 
throne Is somewhat tenuous, but 
every man has his price, and 
who can be sure that a great 
professional like Signor Angeli 
would turn his nose up ai ten bob 
from the Criddemod Weekly 
Advertiser ? 


Corridors of 
embarrassment 

EVEN before John Major and 
Boutros Boutros Ghali open to- 
day's Yugoslavian peace talks, 
there is an ominous possibility that 
the leaders of the warring factions 
will have already had their first 
falling out 

The Foreign Office has left each 
delegation to make its own accom- 
modation arrangements, raising 
the distinct possibility that those 
seeking to exterminate each other 
back in the Balkans could find 
themselves in neighbouring hotel 
rooms in London- 

Many of the delegations are 
staying at the Carlton Tower Hotel, 
the most popular venue during 
Lord Carrington’s London peace 
talks last month. Then there were 
some difficult moments as leaders 
not officially on speaking terms 
kept bumping into each other in 
the hotel lifts. 

Dr Radovan Karadzic, the leader 
of the Bosnian Serbs, is not taking 
that chance, and has booked into 
the Langham Hilton instead- 
“Being more publicity conscious 
than most, I suspect that decision is 
motivated fry the faa the BBC 
studios are only a two minute walk 
away,” said one candid aide. 
Karadzic has only observer status at 
the conference, but still plans to get 
his message across. From the 
comfort of his specially equipped £2 
million Lear jet, complete with its 
new state of the an communica- 
tions centre, he had faxed a 
personal letter to all 650 British 
MPs. even before landing. 

Yet despite the public posturing 
and the Woodshed back home, the 
leaders of the warring factions 
appear to get on much better 
privately than they are prepared to 
let on. Last time around. Mate 
Boban, the Croat former supermar- 



ket manager who has proclaimed 
western Herzegovina as the inde- 
pendent state of Herceg-Bosna. 
met with his arch enemies Milan 
Panic (prime minister of the rump 
of Yugoslavia) and Karadzic at the 
Savoy. Panic asked: “How-can I 
stop these thugs running around 
Bosnia and Herzegovina?” Boban 
responded: “You can start fry 
arresting all of us." The three 
chuckled and ordered drinks all 
round. 

• One who is taking a keen interest 
in the Yugoslav peace talks from 
his Scottish estate near Naim is 
Lord j Campbell of Cray. His 
Nachbar in Nat (Neighbour in 
Need) scheme was highlighted in 
this column recently and has so far 
raised £ISf)00 for refugees fleeing 
to Austria from the Balkans. “The 
money raised is largely due to the 
kindness of readers of The Times,” 
he says. “We are most grateful ". 

Chain mail 

MILITARY strategy, superior tech- 
nology and good fade are probably 
required in equal measure to win a 
war, and Whitehall's top brass is 
taking no chances. For more than 
three months, a chain letter has 
been circulating in foe ministry of 
defence, demanding thatredpients 
forward it to five friends if they 
wishes to remain healthy and , 
wealthy. No one, ir seems, has 


yet dared to break the chai 

Among those who have sign 
the letter and sent it on on axe Ge 
era! Sir Peter de la BQlfare, A 
Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hir 
Air Marshal Sir William Wratte 
Brigadier Jeremy Phipps and All 
Thomas, head of defence expc 
services. Most have appended she 
messages along the line of “I doi 
believe this superstitious nonsen 
but..." 

One participant, who must i 
main anonymous, wrote: “I pa 
this on in the divine belief that n 
luck will be blonde." 

By the end of last month, the k 
ter had begun emulating in ti 
Northern Ireland Office afthouf 
it has not yet reached Downir 
Street or the Treasury. Perhaj 
someone had better add them 
the chain double quick. 

Republic of letters 

DIANA said: “Poor Charles.” Fit 
ipy said: “Yeah, you must be lone 
without him, I expect?” Their eyi 
met for a split second, but ft wj 
long enough for them both to kno 
that Diana was not going to be tc 
lonely. There would be eompens 
tions. Diana blossomed . . . 

No, not another ntystery ipyj 
tape, but a passage from Su 
Townsend's latest novel, Th 
Queen and /, a timely tale of til 
downfall of the House of Windso 
due to be published next month. I 
the book, the nation turns again 
the royal family who are stnppe 
of their stately homes and rehouse 
in a couple of two-bedroome 
council houses in the Midland 
The Queen Mother is allnr^tM 

pensioners , bungalow whil 

Charles ends up in prison charge 
with affray and assaulting a polic 
officer. 

Unsuprisingly, perhaps 
Townsend is tying low, but he 
ag -^JJ 0bert Wrby, yesterda 
said: There was no intention fo 


the book to coincide with the royal 
scandals. It is a happy accident" 
Kirby insists the book is “a bit of 
fan”, and while other writers might 
have had trouble, “everyone knows 
Sue’s style from the Adrian Mole 
books.” 

, Yet already foe book, and in par- 
ticular foe passage describing the 
demise of foe Queen Mother and 
her deathbed confession that she 
never wanted to many George VI. 
have failed to amuse at least one 
patriotic fellow author. Dame Bar- 
bara Cartland says: “I think it is 
appalling. It is so degrading and so 
wrong. It is low and common and 

vulgar. If we are not careful we will 

not have a monarchy ai afl. Then 
we would have someone like 
George Bush eveiy five years, and I 
couldn’t bear that.” 



•The ultimme recession hand- 
book is published in the United 
States next month.- Sell Yourself to 
SjjJSf. “TteCompleie Guide to 
Se^YourOrgans, Body Fluids. 
Boduy Functions and Being a Hu- 
nran Guinea Pig. There was a time 
restricted 

to t turd World countries. Bill Clin- 
tonmU surely be asking whether 
George Bush's America has reallv 
stooped so low. y 


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the TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 









ECHOES OF NAZISM 


Any German should be deeply ashamed of 

fhcSu 3 ^ 1,0 °? skinheads on 

fnr^r° r Gypsy refugees in the 

lurnier East German lown of Rostock. The 


are reminiscent of the antwemitkrfreimy of 

. . Hitler days. Gypsies were also racial 
victims of the Holocaust. 

More shocking still is tolerance urging on 
^PP 01 ? for the demonstrators by the local 
authorities. Their suggestion dial the un- 
controlled influx of foreigners had "released 
aggression in their German neighbours” 
evokes the worst encouragement of fanati- 
dsm. As shocked German mmfciprt; . now 
admit, Germany's postwar reputation for 
liberal hospitality is at stake and action is 
urgently needed to protea iL 

The incident, the worst in a series of ugly 
attempts to intimidate asylum-seekers, 
underlines the need both to limit the flood of 
new asylum-seekers and to protea those now 
m Germany. Last year there were 990 at- 
tacks on foreign refugees, including the fire- 
bombing erf Third World hostels, murders 
and assaults. This was three times the total in 
1990. The number erf new refugees has 
grown from 250,000 to 400,000 a year, and 
may soon top half a million. 

The growth of racism has been shown in 
the rise of the far right. Anti-imm%ration 
parties are now represented in three of 
Germany’s 16 states. There are 38.000 
members of groups devoted to die memory of 
Hitler. The Office for the Protection of the 
Constitution says die far right is now a 
greater threat than the Red Army Faction 
and the extreme left 

Racism is a scapegoat for economic 
hardship that needs little encouragement. 
Most attacks have occurred in former East 
Germany, where unification has brought 
soaring unemployment, social malaise and 
anguish over the future. In Rostock un- 
employment is running at 17 per cent 
Unlike West Germany, foe fanner com- 
munist government not only pretended that 
racism did not exist, but it did nothing to 


LIFE ASSURANCE RACKET 


A doctor who prescribed useless drugs 
because he was bribed by the drug company 
would deserve to be struck off. Yet in the 
invest m en t of life savings, an area as vital to 
happiness as health, bad advice is all too 
common and rarely goes punished. 

Today The Times reports on the problems 
of people being sold certain life assurance ~ 
policies. They are charged sudihigh fees and 
commissions that if they surrender them 
early, they lose most ©Frail of -their money. 
They are sold policies that are often quite 
unsuitable by advisers who" profit from the 
commissions the insurance companies pay. 

Even independent financial advisers, who 
are supposed to have die best interests erf 
their customers at heart, axe often, reluctant 
to advise them to leave their money on 
deposit in a bank or buMing society. . Thqr 
are more likely to recommend one of the 
many insurance-linked savings schemes in . 
order to earn themselves commission. 

The position of tied agents is even more 
pernicious. They can sell only the savings - 
products of one company. A customer solirit- 
Lig their advice will inevitably be pushed to 1 
wards one product, which may be less at- 
tractive and more expensive than others bn 
the market and totally unsuitable to the 
customer's circumstances. In a survey last 
year, the Securities and Investments Board 
found that between a quarter and thud of life 
assurance holders terminated their policies 
within two years of signing up. 

Because commission and fees are charged - 

almost entirely at the beginning of the policy, 
people who surrender early lose almost all the 
money they have paid in. The salesmen 
themselves are paid most of their com- 
mission when tire policy is first signed, so 
they have little financial incentive to ensure 
that the product suits the dienL 

Since the, new regime of self-regulation 
was introduced in 1988.- the opposite of what 
was intended has happened- Competition 


has fallen. commissions have risen and value 
for monty is worse. Independent financial 
advisers have found it more lucrative to 
become tied agents. Their market share was 
47 per cent in 1989; it dropped to 38 per 
cent in 1990 and most people expect it to 
stabilise at around 25 per cent . 

Commissions are now between a quarter, 
and a half as large again as the old 
maximum commission that was abolished. 
It & stiD hard for amsumeis to discover 
exactly how much commission they will be 
-charged. The ideal solution would be for 
them to pay a standard fee for independent 
advice. Advisers would then be in the same 
position as an accountant, a lawyer or a 
doctor beholden to noone and with only the 
interests of the client at heart 

The British balk at paying for financial 
advice, even titoughtirey already do so in the 
form erf commission, which is disguised. 
Transparency is what is needed. Regulators 
should force companies to disclose their 
commissions and should then publish league 
tables of commission charges and of perfor- 
mance. They should also publish the policy 
termination rates of different companies. 

Unfortunately- foe regulators show no sign 
erf introducing the sort of firmer regulation 
that would encourage transparency and 
competition. Because the industry polices 
itself, this is not surprising. SIB and Lautro 
(tire life assurance regulator) have proposed 
revised rules for the selling of life assurance, 
which are presently being considered fiy the 
Office of Fair Trading. But they simply 
tinker with a system of sefrregulation which, 
because of its conflicts of interest, cannot 
work in the best interests of the consumer. 

The OFT- should ngect the proposals and 
suggest instead that the Treasury introduce 
for tougher regulation, in which tire public 
interest is preferred to that of the com- 
mission-earner and in which the haid-won 
savings of ordinary people cannot be abused. 


funding festivals 


A fascinating conundrum is supplied by; 
today’s report of the Polity Studies Institute 
into arts festivals. It found that they woe 
booming. Scarcely a dty or town in Britain 
does not boas a festival- The number has 
doubled since 1980 to 527, with a total 
turnover of over £40 millio n. They are now 
important tourism draws, so much so that 
organisers are becoming concerned at the 
proliferation of the competition. Audiences 
are rising, visitors are enthusiastic, and 
voluntary support from both artists- and 
orga nise rs continues to be forthcoming. 

Festivals arc not merely vehicles for local 
talent with safe programmes. The research- 
ers found that a third of the festivals com- 
mission new work. Many, from Edinburgh 
and Aldebuigh to the mofl modest local arts 
weekend, are of real artistic distinction. Most 
make use of both professional and amateur 
artists and all are a lively focus of community 
activity. The aits festival imp -be easy to 
satirise, but it suggests a British grassroots 
renaissance, the aits on display at the pomt 
of sale, culture at its most customer-friendly. 

Yet respondents to the PSI survey, rather 
than glory in their public success, benfoan 
their lack of public subsidy. The org aniser s 
demand more financial support from centra l 
and local government- Half the festivals 
report themselves to be in defiat. They 
welcome their current expansion but appear 
to feel that the state, rather than-boorning 
audiences, should finance their contira» 
growth. Are thty justified in their demand. 

The question of how much arts subskry 
should be spent on activity outside London is 
an . eternally df l ' irgrg one. Those who have 


asked it, as did the Arts Council in the 1980s. 
were excoriated. No arts minister, certainly 
not the present one; will want the odium of 
asking -it again, let alone answering it in 
favour of the provinces and their arts fest- 
ivals. The big London institutions ' take the 
- lion’s share of subsidy; thus it has been ord- 
ained by Whitehall and thus it will remain. 

The glory of the festivals is that, despite the 
perils of recession, they need not involve 
themselves in the subsidy debate. It is the fact 
that they have been demand-led that has 
dearly underpinned their success in the 
19806. Their programmes must reflect what 
their audiences — and to an extent their 
participants — want Their venues, a 
constant source of worry to them, are likely to 
be whatever is available locally: churches, 
schools, warehouses, even tents on the 
common, not expensive purpose-built halls. 
As the report says, a festival is meant to 
"attract sections of the population that other 
. arts promoters have foiled to reach. - Fortius 
reason, many are-moving away from the 
traditional fare of classical music. 

* . The excitement of a local festival lies in its 
freedom, in its scope to do the unexpected — 
and if it foik'to fafleheapty. The hundreds of 
thousands who attend such festivals each 
year may be more deserving recipients of the 
Arts CoundTs support than the big London 
companies. But as with amateur art, another 
flourishing bin subsidy-deprived fekl of the 
• aits in Britain, it ft more likety that festivals 
flourish because- of the absence of public 
subsidy than, because pf its presence. At the 
voy least the arts minister should give them 
a generous pat on the bade. 


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 


ensure the right lessons were drawn from the 
Nazi period. 

Helmut Kohl's government bas long said 
that Germany's excessively liberal asylum 
laws were leading to social unrest that would 

be ever harder to control. He proposed a 
change in the constitution that would set 
tougher criteria for emzy and thus discou- 
rage the wave of economic refugees who 
make for Germany from alt over eastern 
Europe because they knew it is The easiest 
European countiy to enter. The Social 
Dernocras refused to cooperate, defying the 
government the two-thirds majority needed 
fora constitutional change. Some may have 
been playing politics; most were acting in 
good faith, believing that Germany, because 
of its past, has a special duty to show 
compassion. 

The chancellor therefore proposed an ac- 
celeration of the processing erf refugees, 
partly to get them out of the hostels that have 
become targets, partly to stop them remain- 
ing indefinitely, having avoided early evic- 
tion. He afro wanted the European Com- 
munity id take responsibility fora common 
immigration policy, to enable him to change 
the constitution by pleading international 
necessity against the sodal democrats. 

The SPD has now conceded that its 
present stance is hurting the refugees and 
damaging German tolerance. The chances 
of tightening the. laws in the wake of the 
recent attacks look brighter than before. 
Some 86 per cent of Germans questioned in 
a recent poQexpress abhorrence of racist 
attacks, but this is dearly not enough to 
encourage the authorities to confront the 
skinheads who cany them oul 

Germany’s neighbours cannot cast stones. 
They do not have half a million people of 
widely differing cultural backgrounds pour- 
ing in each year. But with up to two mill in n 
victims of the ethnic deansers of Bosnia soon 
looking for foreign refuge. Germany can no 
longer be the open haven of the past quarter 
century. The country has dearly readied the 
limits of its tolerance. Here is a good cause 
for the.rest of Europe to espouse collectively. 


Whose hand on 
the economy? 


From Mr David Howell, MP for 
Guildford (Conservnriw} 


From MrLeolin Price, QC 
Sir, Either the exchange-rate mecha- 
nism is not working or it is working 
against us. 

The Bundesbank, understandably 
in its role as Germany’s central bank, 
is concerned to an in what it 
perceives as Germany’s interests. 
Distinguished economists tell us that 
the present exchange-rate troubles 
amount to a crisis centred in Ger- 
many; buz, even if the German 
government were to suggest to the 
Bundesbank that there is urgent 
need for polity changes affecting 
monetary policy and the deutsch- 
mark. toe Bundesbank’s vaunted 
independence would permit it to 
reject every such suggestion. 

The lessons are: first, that ERM is 
a strairjacket from which we must 
escape: secondly, that a central 
bank’s independence is unaccept- 
ably dangerous. The creation of a 
constitutionally irresponsible body 
with such power should commend - 
itself only to arrogant elitists who 
instinctively favour giving power to 
dever bureaucrats. 


Yours truly, 

LEOLIN PRICE. 

10 Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn. WC2. 
August 25. 


From Professor A. P. Thiriwatl 
Sir, In the 1980s. when Nigel 
Lawson was Chancellor of toe Ex- 
chequer. it was fashionable for 
government to say that toe current 
account of toe balance of payment 
doesn't matter and there is nothing 
special about manufacturing in- 
dustry compared to service activities. 
Those of us who argued otherwise 
were regarded as economic dino- 
saurs. out of touch with current 
thinking. 

Now, with the currency increas- 
ingly fragile, manufacturing in- 
dustry continuing its relentless 
decline and the balance of payments 
still in massive deficit despite two 
years of negative growth, would ary 
of the trendy economists and poli- 
ticians of the 1980s still care to argue 
that the balance of payments and 
manufacturing industry should be 
matters of benign neglect? 

If we had a thriving manufac- 
turing sector contributing to export 
growth and import substitution, 
sterling could sit perfectly happily 
within the current fixed bands of the 
exchange-rate mechanism, without 
the need for high interest rates to 
defend its value and recession would 
be avoidable. 

There is no easy short-term sol- 
ution to Britain's chronic economic 
malaise (not even devaluation), but 
more telling and worrying, no long- 
term solution either without an 
economic strategy designed to im- 
prove the performance of the trad- 
able-goods sector of the economy. 

The lack of such a strategy has 
been toe major failing of British 
economic policy for the last 40 years, 
exacerbated in the 1980s by govern- 
ment abrogation of virtually any 
responsibility for the real economy. 
Yours sincerely. 

A P. THIRLWALL, 

University of Kent at Canterbury, 
Keynes College. 

Canterbury. Kent. 

August 25. 


Business letters, page 19 


Role of Muslim women 


From the Iman of the London 
Mosque 

Sir. Matthew Parris’s article, “Still 
the world’s outcasts'’ (August 10), 
failed to appreciate the fact that all 
that is done in the name of Islam is 
not Islam. 


True Islam is that which is men- 
tioned in the Holy Koran and 
explained in the noble traditions of 
the Holy Founder. Anything not 
substantiated by these is noi Islam. 
All- examples quoted by Matthew 
Parris in his article fall into this 
categoiy. 

Real Islam is the true benefactor of 
all human brings, women and men 
alike. 


Yours etc.. 

A. M. RASHED. Imam. 

The London Mosque, 

16-20 Gressenhall Road. SW1S. 
August 25. 


1 Pennington Street. London El 9XN Telephone 071 -782 S000 


Evaluation of A-level results and increasing exams’ scope 


Sir. If any more proof were needed, 
recent events surety confirm beyond 
doubt toe case for an independent 
monetary authority in Britain. 

As your shrewd editorial (“Crisis? 
What crisis?”. August 24) observes, 
there is no staling crisis. Yet some- 
thing approaching a lynch mob has 
been gathering against the Chan- 
cellor for even daring to consider 
higher interest rates as a short-term 
response so a short-term problem 
with origins elsewhere in toe inter- 
national financial system. 

How much more sensible it would 
be if the lead was taken on monetary 
adjustment problems of this sort not 
by Treasury ministers but by a strong 
Bank of England, acting as the 
central monetary authority. 

We would then be rid of the notion 
that monetary polity' can be pushed 
this way and that tty political voices 
or axe- grinding professors. Thar 
would surety be much fairer on the 
Chancellor and much better for 
sterling's reputation. 

Yours faithfully. 

David howell. 

House of Commons. 

August 24. 


From the Chairman of the 
Headmasters' Conference 

Sir. Your leader on the implications 
of the A-level results f A-Level rat 
race". August 20). fads to address the 
central issues raised by the Saw take- 
up of the AS examination. This is 
due not to a rejection of “breadth" on 
the part of schools but to toe 
impracticably of toe whole AS sys- 
tem. 

it is only realty suited to very able 

candida tes , and it is too- ex pensive 

staff. The forecast made not only by 
HMC. but by other teaching associ- 
ations in both the maintained and 
toe independent rectors, toa: can- 
didates would vote with their feet, 
has turned out to be wholly accurate. 

Your leader concludes toa: toe 
government need look no further 
than to the broadening solutions 
proposed by Professor Gordon Higg- 
inson. This is too simplistic an 
approach. Since the rejection of toe 
Higgjnson proposals, a great deal of 
constructive work has gone into the 
preparation of alternative proposals 
which would both preserve what is 
best in A levels and yet provide a 
broader ‘'intermediate** course 
which would be realty suitable tor a 
wide range of ability. 

The same could be said of toe 
extensive work being done on voca- 
tional (rather than academic) routes 
to higher education. Furthermore, it 
would be strange if any future 
proposal were to overlook the strik- 
ing recommendations made by toe 
Howie committee in Scotland. 

These represent a serious attempt 
to build bridges between the “Brit- 
ish" tradition and those of other 
European countries, and were based 
on more detailed and open research 
than that which preceded both toe 
introduction of AS levels and toe 
armchairto inking which lies behind 
your leader. 

Yours faithfully. 

DOMINIC MILROYOSB. 
Amplefonh College. York. 

August 20. 


From Professor P. D. J. Weitzman 
Sir. Your table (August 21). “Sixty of 
the best state schools", implies a rank 
order of A-levd achievement, though 
one seriously hopes it wifi not be 
misconstrued as the 60 best state 


Balkan crisis and 
peace talks 


From Ms Marjorie Thompson and 
others 


Sir, The polity agreed by the UK 
government (report August 19) to 
supply military expertise to UN 
convoys in Yugoslavia but to refrain 
from direct military intervention is 
the only realistic and practical policy 
in toe circumstances. 

The Campaign for Nudear Dis- 
armament commends this initiative. 
We think that all parties in the 
conflict should implement an im- 
mediate ceasefire, open up toe deten- 
tion camps to international inspect- 
ion and management, ensure that 
refugees and captives are treated in 
accordance with the Geneva conven- 
tion, and ban the import of all arms 
into the affected region. 

The British government should 
reconvene Parliament so that this 
urgent and grave matter can be 
discussed thoroughly. 

We urge this week’s peace con- 
ference in London to commit itself to 
strengthening toe work of the Inter- 
national Red Cross and the UN 
agencies which are involved in toe 
region. These organisations should 
be allowed to operate without hin- 
drance. 

The CSCE (Conference on Sec- 
urity and Co-operation in Europe), in 
acting as a regional organisation of 
the United Nations, surely provides 
the best framework to achieve these 
objectives. 

We wish all parties in toe con- 
ference success in their efforts to 


Piggotfs air escape 

From MrG . A. H. Watts 


Sir. I have been flying as a civilian 
pilot since 1946 — 46 years. Never 
has the risk of collision between light 
dvil aircraft and military aircraft 
been so great as it is today (“Narrow 
escape for Piggort as Tornado turns 
his plane over”, August 20). 

There is normalty no problem at 
high altitudes, which are invariably 
“controlled”, as military planes do 
not penetrate controlled air space 
without permission, due to the pres- 
ence of civilian airlines. But rural air 
space outside airline routes is "un- 
controlled". 

Civilian pilots report to the flight 
information region which monitors 
the air space, giving position, course, 
speed and altitude, and are told in 
return whether there is conflicting 
traffic. The RAF aircraft do not call, 
so we do not know where they are. 


Premiums and poverty 

From Dr Martin Wright 

Sir. There is a flaw in Jeremy 
Laurence's argument (article, Au- 
gust 20) that “rising insurance 
premiums can be seen as a kind of 
wealth tax.. . The burgled claim on 
their insurance policies and people 
who live in richer, safer areas pay the 
premiums that meet toe daims". 

Many low-income residents in 
high-crime areas cannot afford the 
premiums (or the security devices 
required by. insurance companies) 
and are not insured at all 

A Victim Suppon/Home Office 


school A-level performers. 

Any such “comparative” table 
needs to compare like with like. For 
the purpose of university admission. 
L'cca {Universities Central Council 
on Admissions] calculates the score 
far no more than three A-levd passes. 
Thus, assigning ten points to an A 
grade, the maximum possible score 
is 30. 

The school to emerge top in your 
table was quoted as having an Ucca 
score average of 28, but I suspect 
tiiat this is not calculated on a three 
A-level basis. If there were 89 
candidates and the overall pass rate 
was 94 per cent, a simple calculation 
shows that almost every A-level pass 
would have to be ax grade A. While 
this is theoretically possible, any 
report of a school whose A-level 
candidates either scored A grades or 
failed is highly suspect. 

Whar is probably the case is that 
your average scores include can- 
didates with four or more A levels. 
Additional]}', passes at AS level have 
been incorporated as “extra points” 
— not how Ucca determines scores. 

Unless average scores relate to a 
fixed, defined basis across all schools, 
toe value of any apparent ranking 
order is undermined. While not 
disputing toe achievements of toe 
“top” schools, your comparative data 
may be misleading. 

Yours faithfully. 

DAVID WEITZMAN 
(Assistant Director). 

Cardiff Institute of Higher 

Education, 

fiandaff Centre. 

Western Avenue. Cardiff. 


From MrD. E. P. Hughes 
Sir. As well as being expensive to 
timetable. AS levels are not well 
known in higher education. Most 
important, two AS levels are more 
demanding than a single A level. An 
AS is not half an A level; it is more 
like two thirds. 

The additional burden of tackling 
two AS rather than one A level 
should be recognised by increasing 
the points score. 1 suggest that 
instead of toe present S.4,3.2. 1 scale 
for A.B.C.D.E grades at AS level, the 
grades should be worth 7,5.4.3.2. 

Two grade Bs at AS level would 
then be equivalent to a single grade A 
at A level. One A level and three AS 


achieve a lasting peace and an end to 
the dreadful human suffering. 
Sincerely, 

M. THOMPSON (Chairman). 
MARY BRENNAN. 

JANE TRAVERS. 

JANET BLOOMFIELD, 

C. McMASTER (Vice-Chairmen), 
Campaign for Nudear 
Disarmament. 

162 Holloway Road. N7. 

August 25. 


From Professor Emeritus Sir Karl 
Popper, CH. FRS 


Sir. It is right to resist Serbian 
aggression (espedally nationalistic 
aggression linked to communist 
aggression). It is also dear that it is 
next to hopdess to try to get order 
into such chaos as exists in toe 
former Yugoslavia, since ground 
troops would not be able to distin- 
guish in many cases between friend 
and foe. or aggressor and victim. 

Tn this situation it seems that the 
best thing to do is to use toe West's 
tremendous superiority in the air 
and on the sea. especially as this 
would allow us to concentrate on 
destroying purely military installa- 
tions. This we should dedde to do; 
and of course there is some hope that 
we need not do it. since it is not 
impossible that toe completed prep- 
arations for such action, followed by 
an ultimatum, announcing our de- 
cision, may rum out to be suffident. 
Sincerely. 

K. R. POPPER. 

London School of Economics. 
Department of Philosophy, 
Houghton Street, WC2. 


Twice in the last 12 months I have 
experienced near misses. Once in toe 
plain to toe east of Hereford I was 
letting down from 2,500 feet to 700 
feet, had iust reported my move- 
ments to the region and had been 
told “no known conflicting traffic, 
when two Tornados passed beneath 
me at 700 feeL 

More recently 1 was flying over 
Evesham, another flat area, when 
my co-pilot suddenly grabbed toe 
wheel, banked and dived to avoid 
two more Tornados. 

Why cannot the RAF use toe radio 
frequencies which we civilians use to 
report its whereabouts? The in- 
cidence of near misses between dvil 
and military traffic is now so great 
that there is certain to be an accident 
sooner or later. 


Yours faithfully. 

G. A. H. WATTS, 
Stroat House, Stroat, 
Gloucestershire. 


report published in J99U abuut a 
high-crime estate found that only 44 
per cent of burglaries were even 
reported to the police. The lack of 
insurance is probably pan of the 
reason for toe low figure, since many 
people only report the crime because 
the insurance company asks them if 
they have done so. 

In a fair society the risks should be 
shared more, not less, widely. 

Yours sincerely, 

MARTIN WRIGHT 
(Policy Development Officer). 

Victim Support, 

Cranmer House. 

39 Brixton Road. SW9. 


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pouring { aneedfc y Vaughan W^iams^ rebearsail He had every note toe forcin5adfcfear, about toe i —ri_ 1 

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levels would give a similar maximum 
to the present three A level pattern. 
Yours faithfully. 

PETER HUGHES. 

5 Wood bank Drive. Porthill. 
Shrewsbury. Shropshire. 

August 21 . 


From Mr Howard Goldsobel 


Sir. There is a radical solution to the 
worrying imbalance in demand be- 
tween toe arts and sciences [report. 
August 21). at least so far as entry 
into higher education is concerned: 
convert the student loan into a 
bursary for all those who enrol on 
and complete approved science 
courses. 

As subject orientation at higher- 
education levd much depends on 
choices made at 16, any solution will 
necessarily take two or more years to 
bite. Nevertheless, toe introduction 
of a sciences bursary would imm- 
ediately harness market forces (and 
parental pressure) in toe redress 
process. 

Yours faithfully. 

HOWARD GOLDSOBEL 
18 Russeil Road. Moor Park. 
Northwood, Middlesex. 

August 24. 


From the President of the Society 
of Education Officers 

Sir. How sad that the cynics should 
seek lo attribute this year's improved 
A-level results to easier papers and 
soft marking. Might it not be that the 
improvements owe something to toe 
efforts of the siudents and their 
teachers? 

Might not toe platform of GCSE, 
lessons learned about teaching meth- 
odology from TVEI (technical and 
vocational education initiative), and 
toe motivating effect of enhanced 
coursework and modular syllabuses 
all have had a contribution to make? 

Of course we need to analyse 
trends and toe factors which under- 
lie them, but let us also be prepared 
to give credit where it may be due. Is 
the occasional word of praise really 
such a risk? 


Yours faithfully. 

KEITH ANDERSON. President. 
Society of Education Officers, 

20 Bedford Way. WCL 
August 21 . 


EC directives 


From M r Peter Beazley, MEP for 
Bedfordshire South { European 
People's Party ( Conservative )) 

Sir. Mr Brian Falk (letter. August 
20) appears iq neglect toe vital role 
which the European Parliament 
plays in toe European legislative 
process. 

The European Commission auto- 
matically consults all interested par- 
ties from EC member states before 
issuing its draft legislation. It has to 
be submitted to toe appropriate 
committee of the European Par- 
liament at the same time as it is 
presented to toe members of the 
European Council. 

The committee can if necessary 
and often does call for a special 
hearing of experts and representative 
bodies affected by that legislation. It 
can also call for a consultative 
meeting with toe Council of Min- 
isters before completion of the leg- 
islative process. The European 
Council then takes its decision. 


Yours faithfully. 

P. G. BEAZLEY. 

Rest Harrow. 14 The Combe, 
Ration. Eastbourne. East Sussex. 
August 21. 


Cameras at Proms 


From Mrs Myra Brown 
Sir. The Promenaders hit toe nail on 
toe head last nighr when they asked 
toe orchestra: "Do the cameras get 
up your nose?" 

1 have been a regular at toe Proms 
over many years and have never been 
so irritated by toe encroachment of 
the TV cameras — there were eight of 
them. 

Until this year I have only been 
aware of four cameras operating 
discreetly. Now there are three on toe 
platform writhing about, another 
two among toe Promenaders with 
bright, distracting lights and a 
further three people moving about 
operating two cameras between toe 
Promenaders and toe platform. 

I can see no improvement in the 
TV coverage of these concerts since 
the proliferation of cameras. This is 
another example of extravagant and 
unneoessaiy expense. 

Will the day come I wonder when 
there is no longer room for a live 
audience For the Proms — the 
cameras will have taken over? 


Yours faithfully, 

MYRA BROWN. 

33 Haldane Road. SW6. 
August 18. 


Cost of shooting grouse 


From Mr Roy Cole 
Sir, How far a ay it is from Mr 
Jamie Hepbum-Wrighi’s long cat- 
alogue of expenses for toe moors 
(letter. August 22) to the old and 
simple tag, if anyone remembers iu 
“Up goes a guinea, bang goes 
sixpence, down comes half-a-crown.” 

Yours etc.. 

ROY COLE, 

21 Berehurst, Borovere Lane, 

Alton. Hampshire. 


Letters to the editor should cany a 
daytime telephone number. They 
may be sent to a fax number - 
071-782 5046. 


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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


SOCIAL NEWS 


Birthdays today 

The Duk£ of Gloucester celebrates 
his birthday today. 

Or Raphael Baton, cardiologist 
56; Sir Kenneth Barnes, rivfl 
servant 70; the Right Rev Alan 
Chesters, Bishop of Blackburn. 55; 
Mrs Joan Clandiy, headmistress. 
North London Collegiate School 
53; Major-General N.L Foster. 
S3; Viscount Gough. 5 1; MrS.T. 
Graham, former chairman. Inter- 
national Commodities dealing 
House. 71: Sir fan McGregor, 
expert on tropical medicine. 70; 
Mr Malcolm Pyrah. show jumper. 
51: Mis Alison Steadman, ac- 
tress. 46; General Sir Harry Tuzo, 
75: Professor J-E. Varey. former 
principal Westfield College. 70; 
the Right Rev Maurice Wood, 
former Bishop of Norwich, 76. 

Appointments 

Latest appointments include: 
Judge Curtis, QC Recorder of 
Birmingham, to be a Justice of the 
High Court, assigned to the 
Queen's Bench Division- 
Mr Michael Hoiroyd and Mr 
Robert Sooihgaie to be members 
of the Arts Council of Great 
Britain. 

Mr David Ntssen. Legal Under 
Secretary at the Department of 
Trade and I ndustry, to be Solicitor 
to HM Customs and Exrise. He 
succeeds Mr Michael Saunders, 
who will be Legal Adviser to the 
Horae Office and Northern Ire- 
land Office, from October 1 9. 

Mr Geoffrey Keggen Maddrefl 
and Mr Kenneth Eric Corrdl 
Sorensen to be pan-time Civil 
Service Commissioner. 


Anniversaries 

BIRTHS; Robert Walpole. 1st 
Earl of Orford. statesman. 
Houghton. Norfolk. 1676; Joseph 
Michel Montgolfier, balloonist 
Annonany, France, 1 740; Antoine 
Lavoiser. chemist. Paris. 1743: 
Albert, Prince Consort. Sdiloss 
Rosenau, Germany, 1819; John 
Buchan. 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. 
governor-general of Canada 1935- 
40, novelist. Penh, 1875: Chris- 
topher Lsherwood. novelist. High 
Lane. Cheshire. 1904. 

DEATHS; Louis-Philippe. king of 
the French 183048. Claremont, 
Surrey. 1850: Lon Chaney, film 
actor. 1930: Frank Harris, writer, 
Nice. 1931: Ralph Vaughan Wil- 
liams, composer. London. 1958: 

Paul Muni actor, Hollywood, 
1967: Sir Francis Chichester, 
yachtsman, circumnavigated the 
world 1966-67. Plymouth, 1972; 
Charles Lindbergh, first to fly solo 
across the Atlantic non-stop 
(1927). 1974; Chades Boyer, 
actor, 1978. 

Julius Caesar landed in Britain. 
5 SBC. 

Defeat of the French by Edward 
ill at Crfcy. 1346. 


Church news 

The Ven Michael Frederick Gear. 
Archdeacon of Chester, has been 
appointed Bishop Suffragan of 
Doncaster, in succession to the 
Right Rev W.M.D. Peisson, who 
will be resigning on December 3 1 . 
The Rev John Rose-Casemore. 
Rector of Tidworih, Ludgershall 
and Faberstown (Salisbury) is to 
retire as from September 30. 


Forthcoming marriages 


Sub lieutenant A-C. Ode. RN 
and Miss VA. Noafces 
The engagement is announced 
between Akin, elder son of Mr and 
Mrs LA. Cole, of Brighton, and 
Victoria, daughter of Mr and Mrs 
H.E. Noakes, of Hove. 

Mr R.E.R. COsteOo 
and Miss SJJ5- Woodrow 
The engagement is announced 
between' Richard, son of Mis 
Phyllis Costello and the late Mr 
Ronald Costello, of Cookham. 
Berkshire, and Sarah Jane, eldest 
daughter of Mr and Mrs John 
Woodrow, of Tring. Hertfordshire. 
Mr K. Flener 
and Miss S. Newstead 
The engagement is announced 
between Kevin, son of Jean and 
William Flener. of Virginia. USA, 
and Sarah, daughter of the late 
Edward Newstead, of London, 
and Wendy Newstead. of 
Leatherhead. Surrey. The 
marriage will take place at the 
United Nations Chapd. New 
York. USA. on Saturday. October 
31, 1992. 

Mr RJ. Hogan 
and MissT.D-A. N ormand 
The engagement is announced 
between Richard, younger son of 
Mr and Mis R.V. Hogan, of 
Compton. West Sussex, and 
Tania, only daughter of Mr and 
Mrs C.P.B. Normand. of 
Grafham, Surrey. 


DrW.P.R. Mitchell 
and Miss CD. i«t»tftfnn 
The engagement is announced 
between William, son of the late 
Mr W. Mitchell and of Mis 
Mitchell, of Manchester, and 
Catherine, elder daughter of Mr 
and Mrs D.S. Laughton, of Penn. 
Buckinghamshire. 

Mr N.M. Patrick 
and Miss PJ. Hutchinson 
The engagement is announced 
between Nicholas, younger son of 
Mr and Mrs Stephen Patrick, 
of Rochdale. Lancashire, and 
Philippa, elder daughter of Mr 
and Mrs lan Hutchinson, of 
Delgany, Co Wicklow, Ireland. 

Mr G.R.L S packman 
and Miss E.T. Rowe 
The engagement is announced 
between Giles, son of Colonel and 
Mr Anthony Spademan, of 
Wafersfidd. West Sussex, and 
Elizabeth, rider daughter of Mr 
M ichael Eaton and the late Mr 
John Rowe, of Bradford PevereD. 
Dorset 

Mr E.D.C. Thornton 
and Miss CA Caflum 
The engagement is announced 
between Damian, younger son of 
Mr and Mr Gerald Thornton, of 
London. 5E19. and Charlotte, 
younger daughter of Dr and Mrs 
William Caflum. of Tonbridge, 
Kent 



“A La Carte” by Peter Cameron, an inmate of Full Sutton prison 

Prisoners ‘should be able to sell art’ 


By Simon Tait. arts correspondent 


PRISONERS should be 
allowed to sell their works of 
art as a way of getting back 
into society. Judge Tumim. 
the chief inspector of prisons, 
said yesterday. 

The annual Koesder exhibi- 
tion of arts from prisons and 
special hospitals wiU be 
opened at Smiths Galleries, 
Covent Garden, by John Mor- 
timer, the writer, today. 

Judge Tumim, who recom- 
mended that prisoners should 
be given opportunities to de- 
velop artistic skills in the 
recent Woolf-Tumhn report 


on prison disturbances, said: 
“We ought to think in terms of 
allowing prisoners to sell their 
work, possibly through the 
Koestier Foundation. There is 
a rule preventing prisoners 
from engaging in business: 
but if this were done in a 
controlled way it could mean a 
handful of talented artists 
having a means of getting 
back into society 
He cited the work illustrated 
here, A La Carte . by Peter 
Cameron, an inmate of Full 
Sutton prison in Yorkshire. 
“This man has a talent which 


he has discovered in prison, a 
real talent which he should be 
able to develop." said the 
judge, who was an assessor in 
the Koestier awards. 

He also called for better arts 
and crafts teaching in prisons, 
and for materials to be more 
freely available. The largest 
work of art in the exhibition, a 


mural 60 feet by 15 feet, was 
made by two prisoners who 
had to beg the paints from 
other parts of the prison. 
“Shortage of funds in the 
prison service has meant that 
number of prisons, particular- 
ly in the south east have dosed 
their art departments, which is 
tragic.” Judge Tumim said. 


Architecture 


Breathing new life 
into Irish hospital 


A MASTERLY renovation 
scheme has provided new life 
for Ireland's first voluntary 
hospital. Dr Steevens’, opp- 
osite Hueston Station in 
Dublin. 

The hospital, built in 171 S- 
33 has just reopened as the 
headquarters of the Eastern 
Health Board. Martin Gall- 
agher, the financial director, 
explains: “The board's offices 
were spread across Dublin 
and we are saving £150,000 a 
year by bringing them togeth- 
er-in one building. 

- “The whole £5raillibn job 
has been done without any 
extra Exchequer funding. The 
money we were paying in 
rents and other overheads has 
gone instead towards a 
mortgage.” 

In London, St Bartholo- 
mews and St Thomas’s hospi- - 
tals had reopened under lay 
administration following 
Henry VIII's suppression erf 
the monasteries, but in Dub- 
lin. the hospital of St John the 
Baptist, leased for a time to a 
local surgeon, had not flour- 
ished like its London 
counterparts. 

The situation was becoming 
desperate when in 1710 Dr 
Richard Steevens. president of 
the College of Physicians, be- 
queathed his entire estate to 
found a hospital 

The architect was Thomas 
Burgh, surveyor general of 


library at Trinity College, 
Dublin. Burgh built numer- 
ous barracks and coastal de- 
fences aB over Ireland as well 
as designing a series of impor- 
tant public buildings. 

The new hospital, complet- 
ed in 1 733, was laid out round 
an open arraded courtyard. Its 
design, with pedirnenied fron- 
tispieces was influenced by 
seventeenth century Claren- 
don House in London. 

Renovation has involved 
wearing a new north entrance 
front opposite the station, 
clearing away buildings to 
create a new spacious 
forecourt of lawns and trees. 
The architect for. the project 
was Arthur Gfbney, advised 
by Dr Maurice Craig, doyen 
of Irish architectural histori- 
ans. The new double height 
entrance hall has an elaborate 
rococo ceiling “made with 
casts from a ceiling salvaged 
from a house where they 
filmed The Irish RM,” says 
Mr Gallagher. 

Next door is a one-stop 
health shop, where the public 
can obtain information on all 
the services provided by the 
health board. Upstairs well-lit 
new offices have beat created, 
opening up the hospital's long 
corridors. 

Restoration of the hospital's 
eighteenth century Worth Li- 
brary is also nearly complete 
and die books will be returned 


His Majesty's Fortifications in ' shortly to die glass-fronted 
Ireland, best known for his bookcases that line the room. 

Marsham Street folly 


PARTS of the Department of 
Environment headquarters in 
Marsham Street. Wes tm i nste r, 
would be retained as twentieth 
century garden tollies in ate of a 
senes of schemes tor die site 
commissioned by Building Design 
magazine (Marcus Binney writes). 
-Agroupofarchiteaswasinvtted 
to suggest public nsage for Hie site 
rather than replacement with more 
speculative office hlocks- 
Ron Herron, architect of the 
Imagination building in north 
Loudon, suggests an apolitical 
electronic forum with video screens 
providing contact with MPs. 
Landscape architects Whitelaw 
Turidngton argue that the site 
should continue the tradition of 


“radical social housing in this 
quarter? 1 . 

CG HP Architects argue that 
during the existence of the DOE 
“the quality -of urban life has got 
worse and environmental prob- 
lems have grown in their serious- 
ness.” Aiming to develop a polemic 
on urban life they propose to retain 
parts of the DOE in skeletal form, 
grafted on to a centre for environ- 
mental research. 

The precedent of Les Halles, the 
former Paris food marker is lhrie 
explored, though the concept 
developed there of shops and 
affkxs in sunken courtyards be- 
neath thestreet level public garden 
might be the ideal substitute for the 
Mar sham Street toweR- 


19 9 1-2 Bar Vocational Course 


ANNOUNCEMENTS 


Let yaar me rtcwwn d on me. 
Lore, yoor deUvnance M 
you have promised: then I 
stall lave an answer to me 
taunts attend at me because I 
trust In your word. 

Pasha 119*1.42 REB 


BIRTHS 


ARMFIELD - On August 24th. 
al Queen Own-tone's, to 
Cairtona m*e Hlllj and lan. a 
daughter. Lavtnla Alice 
Hamilton. 

BAM FORD - On August 1 OU 1 . 
to Angela mee Hargrave' and 

' James, a son. William Jama 
Edward 

BEER - On August 34Ui 1992. 
lo Naomi and Dominic, a 
son. Joshua Michael, a 
brother for Charles. 

BRYDGEB - On August 22nd. 
lo Marilyn m£e Klompus) 
and . Robert, a daughter. 
Catherine Sydney, a stster 
For Kempe. 

BUREAU - On August 2 1st. lo 
Fiona inee SmJUu and 
James, a son. Henry James 
Harper. 

COD KINGTON - On August 
19th 1992. to Ursula and 
Stephen, a son. Rory 
Alexander, a brother for 
Kale. Hugo and Tessa. 

DESS AIN - On August 24 th In 
Jersey to Rosy inee Rulhveni 
and Anthony, a daughter. 
Georgia Emily Alice. 

FOSH - On August 22nd. to 
Helena inee van der KunJ 
and Matthew, a daughter. 
Talitha Helena. 

LOVEYS JERVOISE - On 
August 22nd. to John and 
Sara inee Scametlj. a son. 
John Arthur, a brother for 
Emily. 

SAUTTER - On July 16th. to 
CUllan 'in£e Gun by! and 
Edmund. a daughter. 
Victoria Louise. 

THOMPSON - On Monday 
August I7lh. to Nancy-Jane 
in*e Ruckerj and Beniamin, a 
daughter. Eleanor Clare 
pucker. 

THORNTON -SMITH - On 
August 21st. lo Karen and 
William, a daughter. Imogen 
Caiuin Claire. 

WESTBY - On August 20th 
1992. lo Rosemary and 
Nicholas. a daughter. 
Susannah Marie. 


MARRIAGES 


HARVEYtBAILEY - Lorna 
and Rotate were married In 
Bishops Waltham on Tues- 
day 2Sth. All love Dave and 
Carolyn. 


DEATHS 


BROOKS-WARD - On August 
22 nd. peacefully al Merrose 
Farm. PorixaUw. Cornwall. 
Raymond Shirley aged 62. 
Beloved husband of Dtnny. 
rather of Simon. James and 
Nicholas. Family Funeral at 
SI Just-in -Rowland. 

Cornwall, on Thursday 
August 27Ui. No flowers, taut 
donations ir desired lost Just 
Church and/or the First Air 
Ambulance Service Trust. 
Wert Downs, Delaboie. 
Cornwall PL33 9DY. A 
. Memorial service mill be 
heM on a laler dale. 


DEATHS 


J 


COLBOURN - On August 25th 
1992, Commander Cyril 
Edward of Qiktecoto Hall. 
Nuneaton, peacefully aged 
87 yean. Funeral Service at 
Caldecote Church on 
Tuesday September 1st al 
2pm followed by Interment 
In the churchyard. Flowers 
may be cent lo D.8. Devon 
Funeral Directors. i -2 
Wembrook House. The 
Green. Attleborough. 

Nuneaton. Works. 

CURREY - On August 24Ui 
1992. at home in Balt), after 
a brave fight against cancer. 
Rosemary. Very dear wife of 
Neville, loving mother of 
Frances and grandmother of 
Robert and Natasha. 
Requiem Mass at S3 John's. 
South Parade. Bath, on 
Friday August 2SUi at 10am. 
Family flowers only, bul 
donations In Ueu for the 
Cancer Relief MacMillan 
Fund may be semi to Jollys 
Funeral Directors. 7 Windsor 
Place. Upper Bristol Road. 
Bath BAl 3DF. 

CURTEIS - On August 2«h 
1992. peacefully al home In 
Sevenoohs. Mary Delta, aged 
91. widow of Captain Sir 
Gerald Cutlets. KCVO. RN. 
much loved mother of 
DTEsterre. CeraldJne and 
John and grandmother of 
Timothy- Amanda. Aogts. 
Katrina. Sarah. Annabel and 
Robert. Funeral Service al St 
Mary's Church. Kipping ton. 
Sevenoaks. al 12 noon on 
Tuesday September 1 st. 
Family flowers only, 
dorva Darts if desired to 
RSPCA c/a W. Hodges and 
Co. Ltd.. 37 Quakers Hall 
Lane. Sevenoaks. Kent. 

DANKS - On August 22nd. 
peacefully In her 89U\ year. 
Ivy Amelia Danks LR AM. 
For 35 years the beloved and 
devoted wife of BtU. she was 
the much loved mother of 
Geoffrey and Sheila (de Voilt. 
the kind mother-in-law of 
Judy and Paul, the dear 
grandmother of Sally. Nick 
and Liz. and the proud weal 
grandmother of Harry and 
Sophie. She was a line 
musician, and her musical 
gifts were throughout her life 
dedicated lo the service of the 
church and the community. 
"So she passed over, and all 
liw trumpets sounded for her 
on the other side." Funeral 
on Tuesday September 1st at 

1.30 pm at St John the 
Baptist. Cuilden Sutton. 
Chester. Family flowers. 

EDGINTOW - On August 24th 
1992. al F ro g m e n 's House. 
Bryan, aged 83 yean. 
Husband of Daphne and 
father of Anthony ana June. 
Cremation private, followed 
by a Service of Thanksgiving 
on Saturday October 10th at 

2.30 pm In Milton -under- 
Wychwood Parish Church. 


EVANS - On August 2lsL in 
the beauty at summer's early 
morning, my wonderful and 
courageous Annette, beloved 
and loving wife, mother and 
grandmother, with ow 
undying gratitude to all who 
nursed and cared for her so 
lovingly al Crew kerne Clinic 
and YeovU Dtslrtct Hospital. 
Funeral at Hinton St George 
on her birthday. September 
2nd. Wednesday at 2J0 pm. 
Flowers and/or dona lions 
for her special concern 
Bamardo's to Stoucdey and 
Son at George Shopping 
Centre. Crewkeme. 


GOODMAN - On August 20th 
1992. peacefully In hospital. 
NuaU Margaret Mary of 
Godstofw. Surrey, beloved 
widow of Thomas and very 
dearly loved mother of 
Carol. Fiona and Godfrey 
and grandmother of Peler. 
Catherine and Martin. The 
Funeral win take place In 
Ireland. 

KEATING - On August 23rd 
1992. tragically in a car 
accident. Naiasha Penelope 
Detain on. aged 26 years, 
much loved daughter of 
Rosamond and Donald 
Keating and beloved sister of 
Oliver , Roly. Giles and 
Jenny. Funeral al Si Mary 
the Virgin. Ewe] me. Oxon. al 
2.30 pm on Friday August 
28th. Family flowers only. 
Donations to RoSPA (Road 
Safety Division U Cannon 
House. The Priory 
Queensway. Birmingham. 
B4 6BS. 

MAITLAND MAKGILL 
CRICHTON - On August 
26th 1992, very peacefully. 
Sybil FTedrfca Coots in4e 
Patom. widow of Douglas, 
mother of Veronica and the 
laie Charles. Funeral al 
Monde Kirk on Friday 
August 28tn at 2 pm. Family 
flowers only. 

McLELLAN - On August 21 st 
1992. peacefully al Heaton. 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Rlla. 
dearly loved wife of Andrew. 

MILLN - On August 24ih. 
peacefully al home. Lleul. 
Car. AnUtoay David. Royal 
Navy, aged 68. Loving and 
beloved husband, father and 
grandfather. Funeral Service 
al St Martin's Church. 
ShutfonCL near Banbury, on 
Tuesday September 1st at 
2 JO pm. All welcome 
afterwards al Handywaler. 
Family garden Bowers only 
please lo the Church. 
Donations may be sent to the 
R.N.L.L 

MORROW - On August 241K 
suddenly and peacefully al 
Ilfracombe. Nick Morrow 
DS.C. aged 72. second son 
of the late Canon and Mrs 
Morrow and much loved 
father of Christopher. 

NICHOLSON - On August 
23rd 1992. Norman Harry 
(Peierj M.B.E. of CasUeford. 
West Yorkshire. Son of toe 
laie Mrs R.A. Nicholson and 
a dear uncle. Recruiem Mass 
to take place al SI Joseph’s 
R.C. Church. CasUeford. 
Thursday August 27Ui al 12 
noon followed by cremation 
at Pontefract at 1 pm. woi 
friends please accept ihte 
Intonation. Donations In lieu 
of flow era please, for The 
Prince of Wales Hospice. 
Halfpenny Lane. Pontefract. 
W. Varies. WF8 4BC. 
EJtquiries lo Charles E 
Ashton A Sons Funeral 
Directors tel: 10977) 552265. 

CTBEBIME - On Augurt 21st 
1992. suddenly. Cornelius 
Banahan. CLB.E.. QC.. of 
Esher. Surrey Beloved 
husband of the laic Ivanka. 
father of Michael and 
Nlcoletle. father -In -law of 
Jean and waodfaiher of 
Hubert. Former Attorney- 
General of Gibraltar and of 
the High Opmmbnign 
Territories. South Africa. 
Funeral on Friday August 
2Stfiai 10.30 am at the How 
Name Church. Arbraok 
Lane, Esher. Fkjwrrt to F.W, 
ChHty- *6 Elmgrove Road. 

Wey bridge. 


DEATHS 


RICHARDS - On August 18 th. 
at Ns home in Barry. South 
Glamorgan. Barry 

Wyndham F.R.C.PSYCH.. 
aged 77 years, much mused 
by his wife Mo Hie, Geraint 
and Vivienne. Funeral 
Wednesday September 3rd. 
3 pm al Goyctiurch 
Crematorium. Bridgend. 
Enquiries lo runeral directors 
AO. Adams & Son. 
Tynewydd Funeral Horae. 1 ■ 
II Gladstone Road. Barry. 
South Glamorgan CF6 2NA. 
No flowers by request. 
donations to CUenls Amenity 
Fund. Life Care Trust. 
Coubdon Road. Calerham. 
Surrey. 

THORP - On August 25th 
1992. peacefully. Arthur 
Rhodes of Angmerlng. dear 
husband of Anne 
■Shakespear) and loving 
husband of the Ute Beryl- A 
much loved fa l her jand 
grandfather. Funeral Service 
at St Margaret's Church. 
Angmerlng. on Thursday 
September 3rd al I lam fol- 
lowed by private cremation 
Family flowars only but 
donations If desired lo SI 
Barnabas' Hospice. Columbia 
Drive. Worthing. Sussex. 

TUKE - On August 24th 1992 . 
tragically. Simone 1 rite 
Ouinendn Tarayrei. sadly 
missed by those who loved 
her. Funeral Service al The 
Chllterns Cremaiortum. 
Amcrsham. on Tuesday 
September 1M al 3 pm. Dona- 
tions (o Age Concern. 1368 
London Road. SW16 4 EH . 

USHER - On August 2SUL 
Lady Usher, peacefully in 
South Africa. She will 
always be remembered with 
love and affection by the 
Bates family. 

WALTER - On August 2 CXh 
peacefully. Ruby, widow of 
Flight Lieu tenant John 
Waller DFC. sadly missed by 
family and friends. Private 
cremation. Service of 
Thanicsgtvuig or St John’s. 
Alresford. at 3 pm Thursday 
Sew ember tom. Donations 
to RLTKBA. or Woodland 
Trial. 


IN MEMOR1AM - 
PRIVATE 


HILL - Edward. 1958 
Remembered wiih love and 
gratitude. 

SNOW - On 26 th August 
199a Michael Edmund. In 
loving memory of my friend 
and husband. 


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ROTCHE 

(b) The little suit of tbe Arctic, s later form of rvtgc, 
but the precise sosree Is not dear “Tte little Auk, or 
Common Rotchc, is traly a winter visitor 10 the 
British Islands." 

ZEMNI 

(b) The Mind mole-rat, Spain* typhia*, shout for 
Russian dialect scheaok zemnoi “puppy of earth”: 
“Some are devoid of the auricle, as the ante, the 
zemm-rat, the mofo-nU.” 

ERRABUND 

(b) Erratic, random, from the Latin adjective 
errobtadas wandering to and fro, enure to wander. 
“With your errabnnd guesses, veering to all points of 
the Iherary compass.” 

POTAGEBIE 

(a) Growing herbs or vegtablea collectively, a kitchen 
or herb garden, from the French potagerie pot-herbs 
or kftchen-plants effectively: “Practical frforhrai 
Gardiner, or, a New and Eatire System of Directions 
for Mehmry, Kitchen-Garden, and PMagerie." 


Pass list (in order of merit} for the 
1991-92 Bar Vocational Course by 
Training and Assesment 
OB Wfan r H ne W Q Aodland (G); PA G 
D Tankervflle atamhertayne [U; S I 
Kamra (Mk S Leech OUNM Wales 
(G); JSC Eldlnow [M)j M C ROllason (U; 
J i Adutt (L); e J Ambrose (Kh a e 
M itchell (M) 

vwy Competent D R Oudkerk (U; G M 
Davis (M); P C Dodge (L* E Hambley 
(I): C E Chamber! {Gfc H a Brawn (U; 3 
W Heiberg Oh D M SiUhz n* J a Hayes 
(U: N J L Joffe (Gl; A p Casey fG); A J N 
Roxburgh (MK S J Shi Ison (M); K J 
Family (MJ; D A Sherborne (Ck C M 
Phipps (Ml; M BA Dray (GUMS Eden- 
bonmgh (M); R V p Reece (i|;NICIn 
(M); FT Evans (GJ; TT Landau (M); H A 
Richards (Q: M T Simpson (M); S j 
Bradford (Mh O E w Campbell (Ml; J A 
Lewis (U; M J S Ainsworth (U; A j Ayres 
ffl: C Blanchard [GKKHMDe Friend 
fM); J M Evans-Gordon (0; P J J 
Sutherland (Mk C Duke (M): w j 
Hansen (Lfc P R Nlcholls Oh N D 
Phillips (G): j E Sharpies (Mk RCW 
Brawn (USC Ford CM}; B E Min gay 
(Ml; EEM RomerOkJDGavaghar nj; 
j E Newton-Price (M); L J Peacock (U; T 
A viuiera fl); J B BeerO); D L GaUagber 
(Ck A D Golder-weiby (Q; m A Home 
(Gfc G H Mansfield (M)-. H A Drayton 
(I); PA Edwards (UiGHLlcudJ (M):am 
P atUlew oj; j d cox (G): J S Ftobey CM); 

N J Gridin (MU s Ramasamy ffiAF 
Rdn (M); O L Segal CM); C N Sweeney 
(Gl; s w Bailey (Ml: l D Ball fM); H c 
Gower (Mfc A M G CluneituicMK}: N D 
Curds (GJ; s Hudson (GJ; R KUl CU'. RJ 
H Jury (1* J Lowe [Gl: A J Rlgney (GJ; M 
M C Case {Mp D wolfson (Q; D J 
Blayney 01; R J H Davis (Gl; N J Parish 
(D:*TM Weir (M); P J Blbby (MX N K 
Saxton ittMS ward (UMR Carter 
(Ml; D P F vavrecka (M): A c Barnard 
(Gh 1 Crass Ufc L C Moorman TO; R A 
Perez (OrC/Qulnbutd): I Newman (I); 

C D Reeves (U; M J ReveU (M); I Shlels 
(IX J J Straw 0-3; S D M Gamer fM}: a 
H eahr (Gt C D Kessllng (M): H 
Soul hern (Gl: J M ConnoUy (MJ: T H 
craxftnd (MJ: k S dosenura (Gk c J 
Rowlands (Cft F P Spears (Gl; R E H 
williams ah a S E Edie (M): J k 5 
Herbst (Gl; I t Hitching (M); M a 
W ilkinson (ih R G Bates (MU A I Bruce 
{Mk 5 F J Mlichell (M). J F Geddes (d; a 
F Hunan (Gta CPS J lyile WDIH 
Wolfe (M); A N Ball (Mk S T Brovin er 
(Gl; S S Madaan OU R E Mc£nen CM); J 
CReld (M);J M PSlmor(M):J Taylor (il: 

M J Temple (L); CMG Ambrose (G):R 
AmlnftBbi (Gj; R B Canon (M); R L * 
EUls TO; R a Hlne (Gt: J M Sharpies tO: 

T S Storey (G); R p Cunningham (Ml; K 
M Stewart-Smltb (U:JJ Turner (MJ; E a 
M Barren CU: S R R LuttreSl CU; D 
Maxwell (1): PC H Moser OH AC Power 
(GJ: N J Power ptGl Bailey TO; J J 
Anted (M): J s E AmeU (Ml: a Bavin (G): 
REA James (GJ; K L Maxwell (L>: J H 
Mitchell [GJ: a R Fople (MJrJSandKord 
(Gj: R M Scon fM* 5 J Young (M); c M 
Barlow igu S SJ Chapman 01; C H G 
Gfyn TO; c s Henderson (Hi J S Klein 
CU; S L McClelland (MJ; D A Gardner 
CM* E a Foster (Ml; N a peacock (G): S 
Taylor 1U' D J Casement (Ml: a 
C houdhoty m: S J Evans (MJ; T 
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steeman (Gl: m w Seymour [MJ: n 
S pitmll oa v j Tennant OK J s Blgneu 
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C heyne (Ik E L Comah (i); g conts- 
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Leonard nh c M A McMath (LI; P B 
Vincent (Mk S M Beckwith (G); S a 
C orucamlne (MJ: R M Dews boy (IJ; G 
Envts (fl; J koo (Lk C Piccolo (ir. L E 
Powls (CE; P A Richardson fit: J H 
woum (MU P c CDnsidlne (MK B D 
Cummins (MJ; L F Edwards (IJ:NW 
Tavares (Mk G Barwick CU: * P 
Cheshire (Ml; 1 M Edwards (GJ: J N 
Janes (U; p j u Cornu (MU R M J 
Manning (IJ; A R Shepherd (MU M H 
Simon ((]:/ B Southgate (MJ; A L Whyte 
(U; A J woodward (Gk LJ L Ea^and 
IG); PM Freeman (MU E PM Saunders 
(Ml: R G Taylor (GK P F Weatherin' (Gl: 
n j Duckworth CU= s Chanda Ok A D 
Humphreys (Gk d m Jordan (mua JS 
B McGulnes»-Wiy (MU R D Norton (LU 
C a Pany-iones (MU D B Turner (GU S F 
Evans- Lorn be (D; S C Hughes (Ml: B w 
Jones (MU C R G Merrlcn (GU R S Mills 
(MJ: D S Panesar TO; N Xydlas (IJ; K 
Avery HU H W Baker (Ml: l h Barn- 
lather IMUGI Boyle (GU.TDCleeve at 
S FCnxfiu AD Norton (TJ; R J Wilkin- 
son an l A tores TO; M Dean (MU D 
Bizinl (GU G N Ornlfc (GU J M Cohen 
(GUN L Ellenbogen (GJiTpCeeHUA 
Johnson (GU C G Nugent (1); 5 L GAUftt 
fa: R A Harding (MUJ R Wiener (1U S 


H MacDonald CM); F KMcNeUltlU AS 
Mosawt (MJ; J L Murray (MJrCJOwen 
W: K S Parmar (MJ; PM Walsh HUB 0 
Alabl (IJ; AM Barker (IU JC Bo Her (G);J 
E Connlck (MU S Evans HUGE Hughes 
(«; K M T Naylor (Ifc J E Pfokham (GU 
N Preston (UMC Ryder (GU N M 
Bacon (IU J R Barker (i): R 1 Golard (GU 
P j Galllmare (MU J P Horan (IU S E 
Mason (MU P M Mee (MU L Sdhepes 
(MU S B Y Sle (GU R C B Tloetmm (U . 
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to; c M puree (IU CJ Bateman (Lk R G J 
Main (GU A N GtedhBJ (MU J H Mans 
nUMJPMUIsHUCM Everest OU MR 
Pryor (I); C I Bell (Q: ME Benjamin (GU 
A w Barns (MU C Agnew (I): J H L De 
Waal [MJ; S J Dtgtay (MU w B Emerson 
(MU R S Grey (MU SEC Hill (GU J C 
Ofcpaluba (IU F M Spencer 10; M StJct 
CDs (GU A FTatbam (GU R CVleton [IU 
J 5 Adkln to: * L Hopkins (G); I J G 
McLaoghltn (U S Savta (MU N J 
Thatcher (JU S B L Anderson [MU D S 
Hughes (MU M Hyde OU p J Stafford 
OU A w Bingham (IU a Davies to; v s 
Easty (MU J R TronlleW (GU M C 
Jealous (MU C C E MacKenzIe to; H CJ 
Murray (MU A W Houghton (QlA C 
Speake (MU a J welsh (OTn E Allen (IU 
A E Axon (MJ; s M Joshua <G): H D 
Pusmm (U; K S Tlckner (MU B M 
Aiming (CJ; K L Bremerton to S F 
DoneganCGJ; T R Edge (GU A N FOx TO; 
S J Glceson (U: S MRjumdv (MU E 
Panaylod [GU J I Pendley (IU D A 
Richmond (IU A Z scrivener to M e 
S tanojlovic (Q; M I TregUgas-Davey 
(Gl; J I Beazman UU a J Clare (GJ; J P 


M J G Bardet (M); v a cole to N D k 
J ackson to J w Kind ell (MU T J P 
Murohy (GJ; H E Rees (IU O C J Swhy 
TO: SR. Yeaies (MU T E Claric (IU S L 
Goom TO: D R Herbert (GU B J 
HlnchUff (GU C H W Home to R E 
nifle (Mfc h J Marklew (GU C K 
Michaelldes (MJ; l l Montgomery (GU 
A G O'Shea (Ifc P E PathaX to C W 
Ridded to N S Wadsworth (GJ; S J 
YSuwood (M); D Bliimentiutl (M); D L 
Hill (Mfc M G Kendal (Ifc j M Moore [GU 
GCStagnetm (Mfc DLC Wallis (CUDJ 
woodlngs to L J Burrows (It. I P 
cooper (Gfc C J M ConnUun (Mfc J E 
Embenon (MJ: DKGammanphapUJ 
L Hayward (M); H F Lee (Gfc S A 
Rudman (ifc 1 wise (GU R J Bryan (Mfc s 
W Dunn (G); A H Frith (IJ; C S Hale (MJ; 
B J w Hubble (MU DJ a Martin (GfcMJ 
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Clarke (Mfc p s Bade OU G C Rogers (Gfc 
H J Ross (MJ; C Stnbley (Q; M Temple 
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Prizes 


The Scannan Scholarships 
(1|WG Audland (GJ 
(2) P A G D Tankervflle 
Chamberlayne (I) 

The Barsiow Scholarship 
Point Award) 

I S Homett (M) 

S Leech (y 
A N M Wales (G) 

The Evened Ver Heyden 
Foundation Prizes for the 
best performances in Advo- 
cate Ftmnai Assessments 
First Prize: P C Dodge (L) 
Second Prize: T Wright (M) 
Third Prizes W G Audland 
(G) 

Reserve Candidates (In 
order of merit): P R Nicholls 


(J); O E W Campbefl (M); J I 
Adutt (LJ; I J Hitching (M) 

The Bar Association for 
Commerce. Finance and In- 
dustry Prize for the best 
performance in the Com- 
mertial Practice Module 
Final Assessment AN M 
Wales (G) 

The Lawrence Kingsley 
Prize for Dr afting 
RCW Brown (LJ 

The Wilfred Parker Prize 
for Evidence. Civil Litiga- 
tion and Criminal 
litig a ti on 
K J Farreily (M) 


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J Kelly (G); 5 D Laugh ion (Mfc h s 
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M J Parrish (MU J w Passmore to L d 
X Benner (M); G Buttimore (Gl: C J 
Curtis (U: A M Davidson (GJ: S M 
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HalUweil (MJ; A I Ham (M|: M S 
Hyman (Ml: D Knapper (G); d g 
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Muroby (Gfc J K Atney to: M G Beruoa 
(MU M J C DlgghtS (MU C R A A 
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TMemaoue (Gl; M R s Jackson (MJ; M A 
Karin (Gfc s J von Acfnen (IJ; P J w 
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Obituaries 


MALCOLM ANSON 


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Malcolm Anson, 
chairman of Imperial 
Tobacco and later 
chairman of Wessex 
Water Authority, died on 
August 13 in a swimming 
accident in the Seychelles 
aged 68. He was bora in 
Bristol on April 23. 1 924. 


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MALCOLM Anson had two 
successful business careers in 
very different sectors. During 
bis long period with the Imp- 
erial Tobacco Group he rose to 
be chairman and then, after 
removal from this position, he 
quickly transferred to the very 
different world of the Wessex 
Water Authority. He was suc- 
cessful in helping to prepare 
Wessex Water for the privati- 
sation that happened shortly 
after he completed his five year 
term as chairman in 1987. 

Since his retirement in that 
year he had been no less busy, 
largely looking after education 
and young people's causes. He 
died on honeymoon after his 
recent second marriage. 

After Winchester, military 
service and a distinguished 
academic performance at 
Trinity, Oxford. Malcolm 
Anson joined in 1 94 7 the then 
Imperial Tobacco Company 
of Great Britain and Ireland 
It was a predictable step as his 
father. Sir Wilfred Anson, was 
at the time deputy chairman. 
However his wit. wisdom, 
judgment and likeability 
quickly ensured his progress 
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worked steadily through the 
company to become chairman 
in 1 980. 

This was a difficult time. 
The imperial Group was anx- 
iously pursuing diversification 
to replace already shrinking 
income from the core interests 
of tobacco, cigarette and cigar 
manufacture. Some of the 
forays into food and drink and 
the notorious Howard John- 
son hold investmau in the 
United States meant, unhap- 
pily and unfairly,; that Mal- 
colm Anson was Named for 
poor performance by Impel 
and he left the company. 

But his abilities were well 
known to government as weft 
as British commerce and pi 
1982 he became chairman of 
the then Wessex Water 
Authority. 

In that position be helped to 
prepare the company for its 
eventual privatisation in 
1989. and it was Anson's 
robust negotiations with gov- 
ernment that ensured Wessex 
Water got its fair share of 
capital and was able to put in 
place the assets thai deliver its 
present high standards. 

Malcolm Anson was always 
actively interested in promot- 
ing good education arid train- 
ing. These interests led him to 
become chairman of the Bris- 
tol Association of Youth Clubs, 
of Endeavour Training and of 
the Avon Enterprise Fund. He 
was chairman of the careers 
board of Bristol University, 
vice-chairman of CUftoii Coll- 
ege council and, from 1971 to 
1983, director of Ullswater 
Outward Bound Mountain 
School- 

In 1977 he was High 
Sheriff of Avon and in 1979 
Master of the Society of Mer- 
chant Venturers in Bristol in 
many other and less obvious 
ways he helped the city of 
Bristol and the west country. 

Anson was a man of im- 
mense, charm and humour 
who wrote and spoke as a 
classicist should. He was well 
respected, especially by those 
who knew him weL - 
- He had three tons and a 
daughter from his first 
marriage. - 


GENERAL KLEMENS RUDNICKI 


ARTHUR PROPPER 


MICHAEL WHEELER 


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Michael Wheeler, TD, 

QC, specialist in company 
law, died on August 7 • * - 
aged 77. He was bora on 
January 8, 1915. 


MICHAEL Wheeler inherit- 
ed from his father, the efferves- 
cent Sir Mortimer Wheeler, 
much of his iconoclastic irrev- 
erence for pomposity and bu- 
reaucracy. However, as a 
Deputy High Court Judge for 
15 years, his judgment and 
the respect in which he was 
held totally belied his outward- 
ly frivolous attitude and barely 
concealed impish .sense of 
humour. 

He was educated at tire 
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a scholarship to Rugby before 
going to Oxford to read Law at 
Christ Church. He was called 
to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 
1938. 

Before the second world 
war, he had already joined the 
Territorial Army and framed 
as a gunner. He helped his 
father in 1939 to raise the 
48th Light Anti-Aircraft Bat- 
tery ar Enfield, whose first 
recruits included the present 
Lord Goodman. The 48th 
consisted mainly of lawyers 


and actors of some repute. 
Wheeler's father had commis- 
‘■aoned hin^as a 2nd lieutere 
aritljurit ufas oriljrlateT dial 
the War Office became aware 
of this and confirmed it. 

Wheeler saw more serious 
wartime service in Italy, where 
he was in command of a 
regiment and was mentioned 
in despatches. .He was de- 
mobbed as a lieutenant colo- 
nel in 1946. -- 

One of his first assignments 
was as a member of the UK 
mission to the Argentine to sell 
the Argentine Railways to pay 
- for the bully.beef consumed hy 
Britain: during the war. His 
practice was mostly advisory 
and drafting and he was 
known for his adaptable, 
obliging and enormously pro- 
fessional approach, which in- 
. chided a willingness to give a 
rapid but considered opinion, 
not a trait present among all 
his co n te m poraries. He took 
silk in 1961. . 

• He sal on many arbitrations 
and established' a reputation 
for sound, judgments. It was 
hot normal for banisters of his 
specialisation to become High 
Court Judges, but, from 1972 
to 1989. he sat as a Deputy 
High Court Judge in the 
Chancery Division.. 

Wheeler was a teen cricket- 
er and golfer and represented 
the Bar on several occasions. 
His chambers were one of the 
first to stop the practice of 
making pupils pay a. fee to 
their masters. However.. . he 
was not averse to striking the 
occasional bargan arid when 
Geoffrey .Keighley,' who 
played for Yorkshire in 1949, 
came as his pupil, Wheeler 
insisted on receiving a course 
of lessons at the Alf .Gover 
. Cricket School as his fee. ... 

Wheeler married, in 1939. 
Sheila Mqyou who survives 
him together with their two 
daughters.- 


Gemetal KJemens 
RudniddDSa Polish 
war hero, rfledin London 
on August 1 2 aged 95. He 
. was born in 2tydaeznw0a 
March 28, 1897/ - 


KLEMENS Rndradd des- 
cribed hi msdfwefiin his 1974 
-memoirs as the “last of the 
warimrses”. After some brave 
but. inadequate: cavalry 
charges against invading Ger- 
man armoured cars in 1939. 
he quickly realised that Euro- 
pean warf are would from then 
on be mechanised. Yei 
Rudnidd remained to the end 
of his life the quintessential 
cavalry officer courteous, at- 
tached to an almost regimen- 
tal code of honour, a loyal 
friend, a man of great dignity 
and some dash. 

During the first world war 
as a young soldier in the 
Austro-Hungarian army, he 
was wounded in the hand. 
This did not deter him from 
continuing wit Jr a military 
career and in independent 
Poland he quickly gained the 
command of a light cavalry' 
squadron fighting against 
Red Array units. By the age of 
24 Rudnidd was already a 
veteran of two wars. He was 
appointed to the army staff 
college as a lecturer on lactics. 

The German invasion of 
Poland saw Rudnidd. then a 
colonel as regimental com- 
mander of the ninth Lancers. 
Equipped with precious few 
anti-tank guns: their position 
constantly , betrayed by Ger- 
man spotter planes, the Lanc- 
ers had little chance against 
the sophisticated blitzkrieg 
machinery of tire Germans. 



sards of Poles held captive in 
the Surier Lnir.n. Ir. 1941 
RudnickI joined Anders' gen- 
eral staff and tra. c-ini with the 
army to Teheran and. in 
i945, joined up with other 
Palish units ir Cairo. By the 
time that the Poles invaded 


Arthur Propper. CMG. 
MBE. civil sen-ant died 
on July 30 aged Sf. He 
was born on August 3. 
1910. 


WHEN Harold Macmillan 
decided io try to lake Britain 
into Europe, agriculture was 


Italy. Rudnicki had been rem- J one of the major obstacles. 


The failure of cavalry against a 
modem mobile army, remem- 
bered Rudnidd. was “one of 


our greatest disillusions". 
Having hidden the regimen- 
tal colours. Rudnidd linked up 
with the Polish underground 
resistance and starred to 
smuggle intelligence reports 
abroad to General Wladyslaw 
Sikorski. On a clandestine 
intelligence gathering mission 
to Soviet occupied Lvov — in 
what was later to become the 
western Ukraine — he was 
arrested by the NKVD. the 
Soviet secret police. His subse- 
quent odyssey was typical for 
many Poles: deportation to 
Siberia, unexpected freedom 
and army service for the Allies 
in Persia Iraq. Palestine. 
Egypt, fighting in Italy and a 


victorious surge into 
Germany 

In :he Lvov prison he was 
taught English, the rudiments 
of medidne and even fortune- 
telling by his cell males. Per- 
haps because of his wounded 
hand he was exempted from 
hard labour and was not 
sentenced to the usual eight 
years of gulag that was meted 
out to many other captured 
Poles. Instead he was given 
five years of relatively free 
Siberian exile. There he lived 
under a false name until news 
arrived that General Wlad- 
yslaw Anders was being 
allowed to form a Polish army 
from the hundreds of thou- 


pcrarily transformed into an 
infantryman. He was the dep- 
uty commander of an infantry 
division that charged coura- 
geously up Phantom Ridge 
arid S: AngeJo Ksii ai Mor.te 
Cassino. During ihe battle of 
Ancona he wzs commander, 
and won tire Distinguished 
Service Order. Rudnida's 
troops went on to liberate 
Bologna. He then Sew to the 
western front and led Polish 
units as they occupied WD- 
heimshaver. and accepted the 
surrender of the Germans. 

The immediate post-war 
years brought him briefly into 
conflict with the allied occupa- 
tion command which wanted 
to repatriate Pote to Poland. 
Rudnidd wei! understood 
what awaited the returning 
Poles. With same sympathetic 
British aorr.mar defs. he man- 
aged to create a temporary 
shelter for many of ihe Poles in 
Germany, buying them time 
while they found western 
countries that would accept 
them. 

Rudnidd chose to live in 
England and was soon joined 
by his wife who fled commu- 
nis; Poland. They had three 
daughters, one of whom had 
died in the Warsaw- uprising 
in 1944 For most of his 
retirement General Rudnidd 
was an antique dealer and 
restorer. But he was very active 
in veteran associations and 
was regarded as a moral 
beacon for manv exiled Poles. 


DON LANG 


Don Lang, trombonist. rock and roll 
vocalist and band leader, died of 
cancer at the Royal Mareden 
Hospital. London, aged 67. He was 
bom on Jamary 1 9. 1 925. 


DON Lang’s musical career began in tire • 
dying years of the big band swing era, bur 
he was to achieve his greatest fame during 
the emergence of rode and roD In the 
Fifties when his Frantic Five ensemble 
dominated the popular television show 
Six Mve Special, forerunner of Top of the 
Pops .- Although foe aptly named, Frantic 
Five — they were an exceedingly energetic 
group on stage — accompanied many 
rode and roD stars of tire day, such as 
Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard, when 
they appeared on the programme, they 
notched up some impressive rock and roll 
suc c esses of their own with Lang himself 
doing tire vocals. 

In May 1958 his recording of “Witch 
Doctor” reached No 5 in tire British pop 
music charts and remained there for 1 1 
weeks: A year earlier the success of his 
rendering of Chuck Berry's “an ti-d ass- 
room” hit “Schoolday" prevented the 
composer's version from climbing any 
higher than No 16 for his debut in what 
was then called the British Hit Parade. 

“Schoolday” was to cause mildly ner- 
vous tremors among educationists both 
sides of the Atlantic because its rallying 
ay “Hafl. Hafl. Rock and Roll" echoed 
down many a college corridor the gentle 
protest lyrics suggesting that pupils 
preferred playing the juke-box to dipping 
pens in inkwells. Another of Lang's vocal 
hits of the period was entitled “Cloud- 
burst" which first appeared in the chans 
at No 16 in November 1955, and was to 
make two brief reappearances shortly 
after. 

Lang, whose original name was Gor- 
don Langhom. grew up in his native 
Halifax: his musical career began with the 
double bass but be changed to the 
trombone, moving to London where, in 
1949, He .was to join the well-known 



swing band of the day led by Vic Lewis. 
Lewis freely based his style on his big 
band idol Stan Kenton who favoured 
massive brass emphasis in his “progres- 
sive jazz" arrangements. Langhom was a 
featured soloist, first in Lewis's expanded 
orchestra for his ambitious “music for 
modem” tour, and also for the reduced 
dance band format that was to follow. 
Langhom was one of a distinguished list 
of ex-Lewis players who were to succeed in 
fronting their own bands: others on the 
list were Ken Thome, Johnny Keating, 
Stan Reynolds. Ronnie Scon and Tubby 
Hayes. Langhhom left Lewis for a spell 
with the equally popular Ken Mackintosh 
Orchestra during which he co-wrote one 
of the band's biggest swing hits “The 
Creep”. By the mid-fifties big bands were 
becoming not only less popular but 


prohibitively costly- to maintain; seeing 
the light. Langhom became a highly 
successful “session" musician, meanwhile 
launching what was to become his 
parallel career of vocalist, with his singing 
version of Woody Herman’s instrumental 
“Four Brothers". He was also one of the 
musicians who anticipated the rise of rode, 
and roll; he truncated his name to Don 
Lang and formed the Frantic Five which 
he fronted with his rousing trombone and 
appealing voice. 

Don Lang remained an enthusiastic 
and dedicated professional even in his 
dedining years, during which he coura- 
geously fought his illness; he continued 
playing sessions wherever and whenever 
he was able. 

He is survived by his wife May and 
their son and daughter. 


NORMAN DANIEL 


Norman Alexander 
Daniel, CBE, formerly of 
the British CotmdL died 
on August 1 1 aged 73. He 
was born on May 8, 1919- 


NORMAN Daniel was a Brit- 
ish Council representative as 

weD as a historian of medieval 
literature and of foter-culmral 
relations. Educated at Queen’s 
College, Oxford, he became a 
PhD of Edinburgh University 


after the second world war 
and, in 1947. assistant direc- 
tor of the British Institute. 
Basra. 

He was assistant representa- 
tive of the British Council in 
Baghdad (1948) and in Beirut 
(1952). In I960 he became 
deputy representative for Scot- 
land. and in J 962 representa- 
tive in Khartoum. 

He was cultural attache and 
then cultural councillor to the 


British Embassy in Cairo. 
1971-79. He was appointed 
OBE in 1968. and CBE in 
1 974, in particular in recogni- 
tion of his work for Britain 
during the Arab-lsraeli wars. 

His" publications included 
Islam and the West, I960, 
and several other works on 
this subject; The Cultural Bar- 
rier, 1975. and Heroes and 
Saracens, 1984. He also 
wrote, pseudonomously. Revo- 


lution in Iraq . cona?ming the 
events of 195S. 

His first wife. Ruth 
Pethybridge, whom he mar- 
ried in 1941. died in 1981. 
Their adopted son. Gerald, 
had earlier died while in his 
early twenties. In 19SS Daniel 
married .Mama Wales (nee 
Murray), whom he had 
known more than 50 years 
earlier ai Frensham Heights, 
and whom he leaves a widow. 


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Archaeology 


Kingston Lacy dusts down its eccentric Egyptian collection 


By Norman Hammond, archaeology correspondent 


ONE of Britain's oldest, yet least 
known collections of Egyptian antiq- 


uities has just gone on display in the 
unlikely surroundings of Kin 


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Lacy, fte National Trust house in 
Dorset best known for its superb 
collection of paintings by R ubenS. 
Velasquez and other masters. . 

Like the paintings, however, the 
roomful of limestone stelae. scarabs, 
and shabti servant figures front 
tombs vwre amassed as part of the 
decoration of the house, by. William 
Bankes, one of the most eccentric and 
mildly scandalous figures of Regency 
England. 

Bom in 1786, he was Byron’S 
“collegiate pastor, master arm pa- 
tron, father of all mischiefs'’ at 


Cambridge: the poet’s approbation 
and Barikes’s “Gothick" roomdeco- 
- rations at Trinity College have en- 
sured his name some remembrance 
down file years. Less remarked. 

however, have been the results of his 

two expeditions to the NDe in 1815 
and ISIS. 

On tire first of these he travelled as 
a - gentleman amateur, but. the inter- 
est in ancient Egypt that the visit 
engendered m him led to a re turn 
accompanied* by several professional 
artists to record rains and views, and 
Giovanni Befczom, the most accom- 
plished ‘ tomb-robber of his day. to 
help boild a coHection, 

The most.irnportantaiid spedacu- 
far of his acquisitions, - an obelisk 


from Philae bearing an hieroglyphic 
text including the cartouche of Cleo- 
patra. has stood in the gardens at 
Kingston Lacy since 1839. Together 
with the accompanying Greek in- 
scription on its plinth, the obelisk 
text, which Bankes had copied in 
1815 and sent to Francois Champol- 
fion, was instrumental in helping 
Champollion to read Egyptian 
hieroglyphs in 1 822. the first major 
decipherment of an ancient script 
Bankes placed the granite sarcoph- 
agus of Amenemope nearby, but as 
well as pharaohs at the bottom of the 

r ien, he 'warned striking objects 
the house. “This is the sole 
surviving English gentleman's collec- 
tion from the early days, virtually 


intact and a monument to the 
instinctive, even if uninformed judge- 
ment of one whose tastes were 
developed in the refined dimale of 
Regency Britain.” said Mr Hany 
James, former keeper of Egyptian 
antiquities at the British Museum. 

William Bankes spent his last years 
abroad, having jumped bail after a 
homosexual encounter with a 
guardsman, but continued to send 
back treasures to adorn the house he 
had already turned into an Italian ale 
polozzo. His Egyptian collections 
found little favour with his successors, 
however, and languished in storage 
until this year. 

They have now been assembled in 
the billiards room, under M r James's 


direction. “There are groups of 
objects of some importance to 
Egyq»logists."hesakJ. 

"They are a neat and comprehen- 
sive set of records of private piety, 
especially the tomb stelae from Deir- 
el-Medina, the village °f the work- 
men who cut the tombs in the Valley 
of the Kings”. 

The stelae, small slabs some two 
feet high, are carved with scenes of 
gods and donors: the tomb-maker 
Perenute makes an offering to the 
deified Amenophis I, two men 
named Pyiay. probably father and 
son, offer sculptor's chisels to the 
falcon god and Thoth. scribe of the 
gods, and Rarpesses II offers wine to 
the goddesses Hathor and Mut 


Arthur Propper was sent to 
Brussels in )962 to aa as the 
linkman for the ministry of 
agriculture. This was no easy 
task. Both the permanent 
secretary in the ministry and 
the president of the National 
Farmers Union of the day 
were fervent anti-marketeers 
and no demand for special 
treatment for Britain was too 
outrageous for them. But the 
minister of agriculture — the 
late Christopher Soames — 
and the team sent to negotiate 
Britain's entry wanted to find 
acceptable terms. Caught be- 
tween these currents, it was 
Arthur Propper's job to repre- 
sent to the six original mem- 
bers of the European 
Community what it was Brit- 
ain really needed if public 
opinion was to support entry, 
and to report back on their 
reactions. His cool apprecia- 
tion of what the Six would 
swallow, while not always 
welcome to the negotiating 
team, was invaluable intelli- 
gence. His qualities of person- 
ality and intellect enabled him 
to retain the confidence of all 
sides. A deal on agriculture 
probably could have been 
struck but de Gaulle's veto 
intervened and Propper re- 
turned to London. 

Like many of his genera- 
tion. Arthur Proper became a 
civil servant because of the 
second world war. Educated 
at Owens School and 
Peterhouse, Cambridge, 
where he took a first in history, 
his early career was in adver- 
tising. But with the outbreak 
of the war. he was drafted into 
the ministry of economic war- 
fare and later transferred to 
die minsny of food. He be- 
came an established tivQ ser- 
vant in the merged ministry of 
agriculture, fisheries and food 
and was a natural choice to 
represent the ministry in Brus- 
sels. On his return in 1 964 he 


undertook a series of impor- 
tant assignments as under 
secretary in a department 
which became increasingly 
bound up with Europe. After 
retirement from the civil ser- 
vice in 1970, he acted as 
European adviser to Unigaie 
and then did a spell with the 
Price Commission until 1 976. 

It was a happy accident that 
this meticulous and sensitive 
official was able to spend such 
a large parr of his career 
dealing with matters Europe- 
an. A keen sense of history was 
an important part of both his 
professional and private life 
and he was steeped in Europe- 
an culture. He loved all the 
arts though literature had 
pride of place. He read vora- 
ciously and with deep insight. 
His civilised and subtle mind 
made it not surprising that 
Henry James was one of his 
favourite authors. He carried 
all this erudition modestly but 
liked nothing better than to 
share it with his friends. Woe 
betide them if they had not 
read the latest issue of the New 
York Review of Books. 



He suffered a long series of 
illnesses with tremendous dig- 
nity and fortitude. Through- 
out them all he had the 
unfailing care and support of 
Erica, his wife for more than 
50 years. She shared his 
cultural interests with him to 
the fuIL They made a wonder- 
ful. cultivated partnership. He 
will be sorely missed by her, by 
his daughter and family and 
also by a wide aide of friends. 


SIR EDWIN 
ARROWSMITH 


Sir Edwin Arrowsmith, 
KCMG. former governor 
of the Falklands Islands, 
has died aged 83. He was 
born on May 23, 1909. 


EDWIN Arrowsmith gave 28 
years service to the blind after 
his retirement from a distin- 
guished career in the service of 
the Commonwealth. In July 


1 964 he was appointed to the 
council of St Dunstan's. the 
organisation working for men 
and women blinded in the 
Services. Arrowsmith had re- 
cently retired from the posts of 
governor and commander-in- 
chief of the Falkland Islands 
and high commissioner of the 


British Antarctic Territory. 

Apart from his time in the 
Falklands. his 32 years in the 
service of the Commonwealth 
had been almost equally divid- 
ed between the West Indies 
and southern Africa. 

From 1965 to 1979 he was 
director of the Overseas Ser- 
vices Resettlement Bureau. In 
1970 he widened his interest 
in the welfare of blind people 
by accepting the chairman- 
ship of the Royal Common- 
wealth Society for the Blind, a 
post he relinquished in 1985. 
He then became a vice-presi- 
dent. 

Arrowsmith leaves his wid- 
ow and two daughters. 


August 26 On This day 1933 


Among those who were 
deprived by the Nam of their 
nationality were Ernst Toller, 
the playwright and 
revolutionary: Lion Fcuch t- 
tt anger, author of the best- 
seller Jew Suss; Wilhelm Picck, 
who was to become President of 
the German Democmuc 
Republic after the war. and 
Philipp Scheidemann. who 
had proclaimed the first 
German Republic in 1918. 


NEW ACT OF 
NAZI 

PERSECUTION 


The Ministry of the Interior 
publishes a first list of 33 persons 
now abroad who have been 
deprived of their German na- 
tionality under ihe act of July 14 
for the revocation of naturaliza- 
tion and ihe forfeiture of Ger- 
man nationality “because they 
have injured German interests 
by conduct conflicting with the 
duty of loyally to Reich and 
nation." Their property has been 
confiscaied. 

The 33. most of whom have 
fled the country to avoid the risks 
of internment in a concentration 
camp or other misadventure, 
indude prominent Socialist poli- 
ticians. pacifists. Communist 
leaders, and well-known writers. 
In the list are:- 

HerrOno Weis, chairman of the 
now illegal Socialist Party and 
the last Socialist to speak in the 
Reichstag. 

Herr Rudolph BraraJieid. who 
was leader of the Parliamentary 
Socialist Pony. 

Herr Philipp Scheidemann. a 
Socialist and the first Chancellor 
of the Republic, whose refusal to 
sign the Peace Treaty did not 
reconcile the patriots to his 
pacifist and anti-Monarchist 
views. 

Herr Heinz Neumann, a former 
leader of the Communist Party. 
Herr WDhebn Pieck. the Com- 
munist Parfaunemary leader. 
Herr Lion Fcuch twanger, the 
author of “Jew Suss”, a bouk- 


whkfa first became known in 
Germany through the news of its 
success in America and Eng- 
land; the patriots were always 
irritated when the outer world 
quoted Herr Feucfa twanger. a 
Jew. as a foremost representative 
of German literature. 

Herr Heinrich Mann, a brother 
erf Herr Thomas Mann, the 
Nobd prizewinner, already in 
1914 an open sadrist of the 
monarchical times, his post-War 
works were all written from an 
advanced Liberal and Demo- 
cratic angle. Until quite recently 
Herr Heinrich Mann was presi- 
dent of the Prussian Academy of 
Literature. 

Herr Ernst Toller, a Jew. Com- 
munist revolutionary in Bavaria, 
and dramatist whose plays at- 
tracted much attention in Eng- 
land. so that he was in 1 925 die 
guest of honour at a P.E.N.Oub 
dinner in London which was 
presided over by J.K. Jerome 
and to which lie was bidden 
welcome by W.B. Yeats. 

Dr Kun Tudiolsky. an ad- 
vanced Liberal and Democratic 
writer. 

Professor Georg Bernhard, a 
Jew and former Editor of the 

Vossiscfte Zeimng. 

Dr Alfred Kerr, the former 
Dramatic Critic of the Berliner 
Tageblaa. 

Dr Friedrich Foerster. who sac- 
rificed a professorship at Mu- 
nich University lo pacifist 
convictions, which draw him 
into Switzerland during the 
War. he was for many years a 
leading member of the German 
Peace Society. 

Professor Emil G umbel a Jew. 
formerly of Heidelberg Univer- 
sity, an unyielding pacifist, who 
for yearn kept the students of 
Heidelberg in commotion by his 
views about war. and once 
caused a riot by saying that for 
him the symbol of war was not a 
lightly dad maiden preferring 
laurels of victory, fad “one big 
turnip." 

Herr Heflmuth von Gerlach, a 
member of a Prussian official 
family and a professed pacifist 
whose Welt am Montag was 
long a thorn in the side of the 
milaarists. 


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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


Car makers braced 
for cuts and closures 
as sales plummet 


By Kevin Eason, motoring correspondent 


CAR makers are preparing 
themselves for new job cuts 
and closures as they face the 
doubling of Britain’s motor 
trade deficit and the threat of 
the worst August sales for 
eight years. 

Figures yesterday showed 
car exports, which have kept 
British assembly lines busy 
during the recession, suffered 
a rapid fall in the second 
quarter of the year while im- 
ports jumped. 

The reversal helped to push 
up the deficit in automotive 
products to £1.37 billion for 
the first six months. 121.3 
per cent higher than in the 
first half of last year and 
worse thin the whole of 
1991. The second quarter 
deficit of £834 million was a 
deterioration of 202 per cent 
over the April to June figures 
of last year. 

Cars shipped abroad be- 
tween April and June fell by 
18 per cent, leading to a total 
1 1 per cent decline over the 
first half of the year to 
289.333. At the same time, 
car imports were up 20 per 
cent in the second quarter 
and at 509,132 for the first 
six months are running 14 
per cent higher than in the 
same period of 1991. 


The depressing trade fig- 
ures issued by the Society of 
Motor Manufacturers and 
Traders underlined how diffi- 
cult it is proving to drag die 
nation’s biggest manufactur- 
ing sector off the bottom of 
recession. 

Last week Ford put its main 
Dagenham plant on a three- 
day week because exports 
began to falter, adding to the 
problems of the weak home 
market Rover has also start- 
ed short-time working at its 
main Longbridge plant at 
Birmingham for die same 
reason. 

Manufacturers sank their 
hopes for a revival at home 
into August the biggest sales 
month of the year accounting 
for almost a quarter of annual 
domestic registrations. They 
needed sales to top 400,000 if 
die industiy was to improve, 
but sales in the first 20 days 
have struggled to 290,550. 
just 0-9 per cent above the 
287.900 in the first 20 days 
of August 1991. 

Ford is still predicting the 
month would end with sales 
of 365.000, which would be 
the lowest since 1984 and 
marginally below the 
368.000 of last year. 

However, the Retail Motor 


THE DECLINE IN CAR 8ALE8 

(Unions) 



1979 


Industiy Federation, which 
represents 12,000 dealers, re- 
mained optimistic that the 
industiy could hit 380,000. 
more than last year, still be- 
low expectations. 

Manufacturers haw cut 
prices and raised the advertis- 
ing budget for August to a 
record £50 million to hire 
customers back. The cost of 
marketing and financing by 
some manufacturers has 
been as much as £450 a car. 

Last night manufacturers 
were counting the cost of 
throwing so much money into 
the marketplace for no better 
return than August. 1991. 
which was part of the worst 
annual sales slump for 50 
years. They see little chance of 
achieving annual sales over 
1991*5 1.59 millio n. 

A spokesman for Ford. 
Britain’s biggest car com- 
pany. said: “There is Sill a lot 
of uncertainly out there in die 
marketplace. We all started 
with high hopes and sales 
have managed to turn up 
slightly but we stQl think that 
August will be 365.000 and 
that does not tell us that the 
industiy is staging any sort of 
dramatic revivaL” 

Vauxhall added: “Everyone 
is haring a tough time. The 
car industiy is an economic 
indicator and things are not 
going so welL" 

There are also about 
30,000 cars that may have to 
be heavily discounted because 
they must be sold before Jan- 
uary 1- Those cars are not 
fitted with catalytic convert- 
ers. Under European Com- 
munity legislation, all cars on 
sale next year must have one. 



Reserves 
maybe 
used to 
shore up 
sterling 


Costumed from page i 


Martin Bell of the BBC lies wounded after being hit during a mortar attack in Sarajevo. It was his first 
injury in a career covering 1 1 wars. He toki colleagues: “Okay, ITI survive. I am alive.” 


Tenacious girl given 
her new heart at last 


By TIM JONES 


Jaguar engine, page 2 


20,000 ring in to hear royal tape 


Continued from page 1 
Play the King, an unpopular 
prime minister opts to play 
the republican caid against 
the king to distract the public 
from his dwindling support 
and the floundering econo- 
my. The king, who has waited 
for decades for the throne, 
complains about the home- 
less and destruction of the 
environment The fictional 
Princess Charlotte is photo- 
graphed on holiday with 
another man and after sever- 
al other mishaps, is forced to 
leave the family. 


Michael Wearing, head of 
drama serials, said: M It prom- 
ises to be one of the most 
controversial series we have 
made and it is probably as a 
result of excitement in the 
royals.*’ 

But a senior BBC source 
said plans to adapt the novel 
for television had been on the 
cards long before allegations 
began appearing in newspa- 
pers about the Duchess of 
York and the Princess of 
Wales. The BBC had been 
delayed by eight months of 
wrangling between Mr 


Dobbs and Mr Davies who 
could not agree on the 
storyiine. 

Mr Davies said he now had 
freedom to adapt the novel, 
adding: “Real-life events 
seem to be overtaking us. It 
wifi be difficult to know what 
to include." But he promised 
some distance between the 
drama and the real royal fam- 
ily. “There will be no- 
lookalikes and certainly no- 
body with ears that stick out.” 


A LITTLE girl who lived for 
seven weeks after doctors 
said she had just 48 hours 
left was yesterday given a 
new heart Wendy Walke r, 
ten, had clung to life while 
doctors searched Europe for 
a replacement organ. 

Wendy had amazed doc- 
tors and hospital staff with 
her tenacity as she waited in 
an intensive care unit for a 
donor heart to be found. 

Cohn Hilton, the 
who perf orm ed the 
operation at the Freeman 
hospital, Newcastle upon 
Tyne, said later that Wendy 
was in a satisfactory condi- 
tion. Mr HQton said: “She is 
a remarkable fighter. 1 went 
on holiday last week and I 


Battle (heme, page 5 
Diaiy. page 10 


folly expected her not to be 
here where I got hack. " . 

The hospital gave virtually 
no details about the donor 
heart, which came hum an 

Eng lish man 

Wendy's parents, Peter 
and Evelyn, had maintained 
a bedside vigil, praying that 
she would survive for long 
enough to have the operar 


tion. Mr Walker, 43, a gas 
engineer from Longforgan. 
Dundee, Tayside, had ap- 
peared on television plead- 
ing for a donor and Wendy 
was put at the top of the 
European transplant Est 

A spokeswoman for the 
hospital said: “Wendy has 
got a hell of a lot of willpower 
to survive for seven weeks. 
Her parents were absolutely 
euphoric when they were told 
about the operation. It has 
been a long period of worry 
for them." 

Wendy had lived a normal 
healthy life until a virus at- 
tacked her heart musdes, 
leaving her needing a trans- 
plant to survive. It was not 
until Monday that Mr Walk- 
er and his wife heard the 
news that.* heart harf be- 
come available. 

Mr Walker said: “When 
she came out of the operat- 
ing theatre we were told her 
feet were nice and warm, 
where before they were cold. 
Her eyes are open now and 
she knows her mom and dad 
are there for her." 


Thousands forced to 
leave New Orleans 


Continued from page 1 
south Miami to prevent ac- 
cess to scavengers from, out- 
side the region. About 1 ,500 
National Guardsmen have 
been deployed as wefl as an 
infantry battalion. But in 
some homes, people aimed 
with shotguns refuse to aban- 
don their possessions. 

President Bush flew into 
southern Miami where he 
toured damaged areas. He 
visited an evacuation shelter 
dose to where the eye of An- 
drew struck. At times the 
president’s motorcade stowed 
to a crawl as it negotiated 
fallen power lines and man- 
gled traffic lights. “My heart 



goes out to the people of 
Florida.” Mr Bush sahL He 
promised to do all he canto 
hasten release of $50 minion 
in disaster reBef hinds. 

Even though the winds 
have passed, emagenqjr man- 
agement officials have told 
residents tux to leave their 
homes. They gave a warning 
that hurricane experiences 
showed that most deaths and 
injuries crane in the after- 
math of the storm from power 
cables. glass, damage bidd- 
ings and traffic accidents due 
to failed traffic lights. 

Andrew has taken a devas- 
tating envir onmental mil on 
the Miami area. “It looks like 
a plague of locusts has been 
here." said a spokesman for 
parks management. At 
Homestead air force base, 
every building was either de- 
stroyed or damaged said die 
Pentagon. The 630Q workers 
have been told to stay away 
floral least five days. "Home- 
stead air force base no longer 
exists." said. Toni Tiondan at 
the Honda Community Af- 
fairs Department 


Le Figaro newspaper will 
today publish its own survey 
by the Sofres palling firm. It 
shows 51 per cent of respon- 
dents in favour of die treaty, 
and 49 per cent against. The 
firm questioned 1,000 voters 
between Friday and Monday. 

Alan Btith. the Liberal 
Democrat Treasury spokes- 
man, said yesterday that it 
was “touch and go” whether 
an interest rate rise could be 
averted. He daimed that Mr 
Major's credibility on the 
ERM was being undermined 
because he was too scared to 
‘take on” the Tory rebels 
ailing for Britain’s with- 
incwal Mr Beth also urged 
the government to underpin 
the pound by putting sterling 
in the narrow band of the 
ERM, giving dm Bank of 
England independent charge 
of setting interest rates and 
dropping Britain's opt-out 
clause on monetary union. 

He argued that the. pound 
was. also under pressure 
because of lade of confidence 


in Britain’s “real economy" 
and be called for an extra £2 
billion to be spent on hous- 
ing, public building and 
transport to get the construc- 
tion industiy moving. Mr 
Bettb criticised Labour for 
lacking a coherent policy and 
said that that it was calling 
fra - European co-ordination 
on interest rates winch it 
knew were impossible to 
achieve. 


Hofiday bargains, page 2 
Letters, page II 
Maastrichlwonfcs, page 15 


THE TIMES CROSSWORD NO 1 9,007 



ACROSS 

I Fruit put m piles in lines (8). 

5 Waterproof stuff — it’s about to 
be incorporated in a raincoat (6). 

10 As a court official, I can have 
dimber disciplined (4-1 1). 

11 Broadcast rebuke about help 
being turned back (7). 

1 2 Ship's doctor light about lip (7). 

13 Bespangled girt rejected advance 
payment (8). 

15 Ecstatic about money that’s dis- 
bursed (5). 

18 While speaking, adjusts clothing 
(5). 

20 Working hard in recession, 
extracting from niobium the core 
metal (8). 

23 Interrupt routines in attempt to 
make a comeback (7). 

25 A mule, perhaps — one unsteady 
on his feet (7). 

Solution to PU22le No 19.006 


26 An editor can hope for circula- 
tion that’s a little of whaTs 
required (1.4 ,2. 3^). 

27 In defeat, you are said to grow up 

( 6 ). 

28 Sailor's in the drink (8). 

DOWN 



Irritable in uniform (6). 

2 State conceals one murder, the 
result of using a dropper (9). 

3 A son of miracle, what the Dutch 
do to polders (7). 

4 Anger which a fellow suppresses 
(Si. 

6 Still by no means ’inane (7). 

7 Beginners, toying with a new 
guitar, pluck a string (5). 

8 Top of cedar in Knossos. perhaps 
— material . .(8). 

9 . . yielding couch for king m the 

east (8). 

14 Marks boat in difficulties in 
river (4.4). 

16 Sally escorted by people in extra- 
terrestrial gear (9). 

1 7 Boss the fellow with authority in 
this rural business (4-4). 

1 9 Drain from sink (7). 

21 Capital chap included in Noah 
American XI (7). 

22 Family tree (6). 

24 Jack used to catch mackerel (5). 

25 Gentleman of dissolute habits, 
no end of an upstair (5). 


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Life & Times section 


This puzzle was solved within 30 minutes by 22 percent of the competitors at the 
1992 Birmingham regional final of The Times Intercity Crossword 
Championship. 

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A daily safari through the 
language jungle- Which definitions 
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would vote in favour of the 
Maastricht treaty and 31 per 
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that they did not know how 
thqy would vote or that they 
would not do so. 

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fay telephone using a repre- 
sentative sample of 944 vot- 
ers. A previous Louis Harris 
poll, carried out on July 4 and 
5, gave the lobby in favour of 
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Page 19 


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admitted it would not 
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profit barrier this year 
Tempos, page 18 


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22-26 


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1 992 


BUSINESS EDITOR JOHN BELL 


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Big British companies will lose millions from $2 pound 


By Patricia Tehan 

BRITISH companies sand to lose £750 
miflionm export profits and an extra. £200 
million from currency translation for each 
1 0 cent fall in the dollar against sterling, 
according to figures from Doug 
McWilliams, economic adviser to the Con- 
federation of British industry. 

He warned that all large UK firms will be 
affected by the $2 pound, either from the 
impact on exports, as demand weakens and 
profit margins are hit. or from die effect of 


can companies on 
JndustriaJistsyester 


trice, wfil aii be him. 
ly voiced their concent 


Professor McWQIiams believes Britain's tag 
exporters, that are competing with Ameri- 


Haff of Hanson's operating profits come 

from America. In the year to September 30 
1 99 1 America contributed £493 million of 
Hanson's £995 million operating profits. 
Yesterday a Hanson director said: “Clearly 
the translation of dollar denominated 
operating profits is adverse when the 
currency declines. Bui there are knock-on 
benefits in terms of making erports from the 
US." In addition, he said, it wifi lower the 
company's interest bill for dollar denomi- 
nated borrowings. However, “On balance it 
wifi be negative rather than positive'’ he 


said. Stephen Brown, chief executive at Tate 
& Lyle, the sugar group where more than 
half of profits are made in America, said 
every one cent appreciation of the pound 
against the dollar will reduce profits after tax 
by between £300,000 and £400.000 a year 
as wen as reducing the value of its North 
American assets. He said there will be linie 
effect on cash flow because “We use our 
cash generated in North America to pay 
interest on our debt and also to reinvest 
Although we have a high percentage of 
earnings in the US we also raise almost ait 
our debt there, so there is a natural hedge." 

Mr Brown added: “If we thought tha: it 
was a long term situation then we would be 


ccncerr^d'' about the longer-term economic 
effect or. At company, “but at the moment 
we repaid it as an accounting situation", he 
said. " 

David Nash, finance director at Grand 
Metropolitan, die drinks group, said the 
company has forward cover in place to 
proiec: :: from most of its exposures but said 
currency translation will wipe between £8 
million and £9 million off pre-tax profits for 
eray five cent fail in the value of the dollar. 

Research from Pfrflip Wolstencrofi. Smith 
New Conn's market strategist, shows drugs 
companies are likely to be worst hit. But he 
says’ many companies wifi benefit from 
lower commodity prices. Wellcome esti- 


mates that every one cent movement of 
doffar/steriing raxes affects pre-tax profits by 
£1.5 million. IC1, which has one third of its 
earnings from America, expects to suffer in 
terms of earnings translation, but believes 
the damage to profits will be offset to some 
extent by advantages gained in terms of 
buying dollar denominated commodities. 

Britain's biggesi manufacturer, British 
Aerospace, says it is prelected from fluctua- 
tions in the dollar by currency hedging. 
BAe's afi-imponanx Al Yamamah Saudi 
Arabian defence contract is. however, 
vulnerable as the company is paid in the 
proceeds of oil sales. BAe is hedged at SI .50 
to $1 .70 over the next 1 8 months. 


Worries over 
Maastricht 
damage sterling 

By Goun Narbrough and Wolfgang MQnchau 


POUND STRAINS ERM 

Sterling’s divergence from ECU since Joining 


CENTRAL banks across 
Europe stand ready to attack 
die mark after its steady 
advance that yesterday 


solute floors in the exchange- 
rale mechanism (ERM). 

Forceful . intervention to 
thwart the progress of the 
mark, deploying the central 
banks’ huge official reserves, 
will be the first line of defence 
againstthe mounting pressure 
the German currency is exert- 
ing on die rest of the parity 
grid. Only if intervention fails 
to force the mark to retreat are 
the British and other govern- 
ments expected to bite the 
bullet and raise domestic in- 
terest rates. 

Sterling dropped sharply to 
a low of DM2.781 2 yesterday 
afternoon, its weakest since 
ERM entry in autumn 1990. 
after an opinion poll that 
shewed 51 per cent of the 
French were ready to vote 
against ratification of the ■ 
Maastricht -treaty.- Sterling’s : 
absolute floor against the 
mark.' anchor currency of the 
ERM, is DM2.7780. 

The stock market continued 
to suffer from fears about 
weaker sterling and the threat 
of a base rate increase from the 
current 10 per cent The FT- 
SE 1 00 index, down 50 at one 
pant dosed 30.1 lower at 
2^281. Gifted ged stocks end- 
ed about a half point down 
after a volatile day before 
today's auction. 

In the money market, the 
three month interbank lend- 
ing rate dosed */» firmer at 
Hr/a per cent This indicated 
expectations that Norman 
Lamont, the Chancellor, will 
be forced to raise the base rate 
try about a full point. 

After the Chancellor called 
on John Major to discuss the 
current situation, the Treasury 
made it dear that the govern- 


ment remains committed to its 
ERM band and rules out any 
devaluation of sterling. Cur- 
rent pressures, in the govern- 
ment view, represent a “mark 
problem ", a spokesman said. 

When sterling readies its 
mark floor, midi currency 
analysts think likely today, the 
Bank of England will be 
obliged to sell marks for 
pounds, drawing down its 
currency warchest of $45 
billion at the last count. The 
Bundesbank is also obliged 
under ERM rules to supply 
unlimited marks to replenish 
the British supply. 

A later French poll, which 
pointed to 51 per cent in 
favour the Maastricht treaty, 
helped the pound to regain 
some ground. At the official 
London dose at 4pm. sterling 
was bade at DM2.7923. 

Although no intervention 
was detected yesterday from 
most leading central banks, 
the Bank of Italy stepped in to 
support the lira ai the fixing. 
The -Portuguese and Spanish 
authorities were also obliged 
to step iri to prop up their 
currencies. The Belgian franc, 
meanwhile. cEmbed to the top 
of die ERM yesterday, over- 
taking the peseta. 

The dollar, whose virtual 
free fall last week unleashed 
die current turbulence in 
world foreign exchange mar- 
kets, had a surprisingly good 
day. despite the absence of 
support action. In London, it 
dosed at DM1.4025. having 
been as low as DM1.3940 
during die day. Against the 
pound, the dollar dosed slight- 
ly firmer than on Monday at 
$1.9935. 

□ Interest rates may have to 
rise in Britain, Italy, and 
possibly even in France, ac- 
cording to European financial 
analysis, after French opinion 
polls yesterday pointed to- 
wards a dead heat in the 


referendum on the Maastricht 
treaty on September 20. 

These market jitters reflect 
fears that a no vote would kill 
the treaty and would lead to a 
massive flight into the Ger- 
man mark. But despite these 
fears, there is wide agreement 
among economists that Euro- 
pean governments wiU not 
allow a realignment of the 
ERM before the French vote. 

Nigel Rendall. of James 
Capd. said die likelihood of a 
British and Italian rate rise 
has risen strongly with yester- 
days opininon polls. “Even 
the French may come under 
considerable pressure to raise 
rates, although the franc has a 
small safety margin, and they 
may just get away with ft.’’ Bui 
he added that he saw little 
chances of a realignment even 
in the case ofa French no vote. 
“The case for a realignment is 
difficult to make even after a 
no vote, because others would 
warn to stick with their parities 
against the mark.*’ 

He said the Benelux coun- 
tries are most certain to do so. 
and yesterday even die Bank 
erf Italy indicated its opposi- 
tion to a realignment France 
is also set against devaluation, 
in which case a realignment 
would be no more than a 
euphemism for a straight- 
forward sterling devaluation. 

Ifty I dam. currency analyst 
at BZW, said that “if die 
French vote ‘no’, all the weak 
currency countries will raise 
rales rather than agree to a 
realignment" In London, ex- 
pectations of higher interest 
rales were reflected in the price 
erf currency future contracts. 
The September sterling con- 
tract implies an interest rate of 
dose to 1 1 per cent while the 
three month sterling contract 
discounted an interest rate of 
1 0.8 percent 

Comment, page 19 


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Bank of England 
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£280m Canaiy Wharf claim rejected 


By Angela Mackay 


ERNST & Young. Canary 
Wharfs administrator, has re- 
jected a £280 million claim 
from Credit Suisse First Bos- 
ton relating to the Wall Street 
bank's budding in the scheme 
in Cabot Square. The bank 
has been told by the adminis- 
trator that ft wiD have to 
pursue its daim in the courts. 

A meeting of creditors of 
Olympia & York Canaiy 
Wharf Ltd was told by Ernst & 
Young yesterday that a CSFB 
subsidiary. Glenstreet Proper- 
ty Development had tried to 
bring the daim as an unse- 
cured creditor. One of the 
administrators. Stephen 
Adamson, said the daim bad 
been refected because it was 
based on “certain contingen- 
cies” that had to be adjudicat- 
ed by a court 

CSFB bought a 999-year 
lease on the 550,000 sq ft 
building, known as FC1. and 
are scheduled to move in at the 
beginning of next year. Last 
night, CSFB was unable to 


comment on the daira. About 
250 of a possible 650 unse- 
cured creditors to the main 
trading company attended the 
meeting and agreed to contin- 
ue the process of administra- 
tion. Canary Wharf was 
placed in administration in 
May owing at least £625 
million after O&Y. its parent, 
failed to reschedule its debts of 
$1 1 bQIion. 

The administrators said 
that while the attending credi- 
tors were owed £52 million, 
the project's banks have esti- 
mated that of the £567 million 
they are owed, about £70 
million is unsecured. The 
banks are thought to be assess- 
ing whether the amount 


should rise. Three of Canary 
Wharf’s banks. Barclays, 
Lloyds and CIBC, were put on 
the creditors’ committee. 

Mr Adamson said that he 
had agreed “more titan 10" 
confidentiality agreements 
with interested investors but 
talks were preliminary. The 
government, he added, was 
adamant that any deal must 
indude a £400 million contri- 
bution to the extension of the 
Jubilee Line and thai this 
reduced the number of pos- 
sible investors 

In June, the administrators 
said they had six interested 
parties but since then, one of 
them. Hanson, had with- 
drawn. Only one cash bid. put 


together by O&Ts founder 
Paul Reichmann. is on the 
table from a group of Wall 
Street financiers But the 
banks are reticent about the 
proposal because it involves a 
reshuffling of creditor priority. 

Professional costs of the 
administration were between 
£800.000 and £900.000 a 
month. Of the £10 million 
provided by the dub banks to 
fond the administration until 
the end of the year. £8 million 
is stifi available. Mr Adamson 
said. The administrators have 
not let new space since their 
appointment, but Mr Adam- 
son said they had made offers 
relating to more than 1 mil- 
lion sq ft 


British Gas makes second-quarter loss 




British Gas 






Into the red: Cedric Brown reports loss of £17 million 


BRITISH Gas has dipped 
into the red. losing £17 million 
in the second quarter com- 
pared with a profit of £247 
million one year ago. The 
company warned its share- 
holders that profits for the fall 
year are likely to be lower than 
in 1991 unless there is a 
prolonged cold spell (George 
Sivell writes). 

For the first half, historical 
cost profits before tax fell from 
£1.307 million to £915 rail- 
lioa Cedric Brown, the new 
chief executive, said 70 per 
cent of the fall was down to an 
unusually warm second quar- 
ter against a colder than 
normal second quarter in 
1 99 1 . The rest of the fall was 
pinned on increased competi- 
tion to British Gas in the 
industrial supply market 

British Gas estimates it has 


lost 30 per cent of this market 
to competition. It was a dis- 
pute over the rates charged to 
rivals for using the British Gas 
pipelines that led to the recent- 
ly announced monopolies 
commission enquiry. 

Despite the profits fall Brit- 
ish Gas is to pay shareholders 
a dividend of 6.4p for the first 
half. Because of a change in 
the year end from March to 
December there is no directly 
comparable dividend. But an- 
alysts estimate an equivalent 
dividend would have been 6p 
for last yearis first hall The 
company emphasised that the 
policy remained to increase 
the dividend in real terms and 
there was “no reason to 
change this policy at this 
stage". 

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


L&M loss 
reduced 
to £ 26 m 


By Matthew Bond 


LONDON & Metropolitan, a 
property company that made 
a pre-tax loss of £100 million 
in 1 990. lost £26 million last 
year. 

The results for the year to 
December 3 1. published yes- 
terday. had been delayed by 
negotiations with the compa- 
ny's banks, which collectively 
are owed £129 million. The 
banks Era agreed to a finan- 
cial restructuring in February 
last year. They have agreed to 
extend facilities, which were 
due to run out at the end of 
June, for another 1 2 months. 

Chris Harris, who became 
chairman and managing di- 
rector when David Lewis 
stood down at the time of the 
original refinancing, wel- 
comed the banks' decision to 
continue support 

"The banks believe the 
management here can obtain 
a better result than any alter- 
native route might produce," 
he said. “We embarked on the 
job when we refinanced the 
company the first time round. 
This is the second phase." 

A second successive year of 
heavy losses means the com- 
pany's balance sheet now 
shows a negative net worth of 
about £44 million. But John 
Aiton, L&M's finance director, 
said the directors were relative- 
ly sanguine about their legal 
position. “We’re certainly not 
blas6 but we do sleep at night" 
it is illegal for directors to 
trade if they know their com- 
pany is insolvent 

The company's interest bill 
during the year was El 2.7 
million, but about £7 million 


of this was paid in the form of 
preference shares as part of the 
original agreement reached 
with the banks. The banks also 
have warrants that would give 
them 49.9 per cent of the 
ordinary equity in the event of 
a takeover bidL As expected, 
there is no dividend for the 
second year running. 

M r Harris said the property 
market had been, “much 
tougher" than expected at the 
time of the refinancing. He 
was therefore delighted that 
IS properties had been sold 
during the year at prices 
within 10 per cent of their 
1990 valuations. The sales 
produced proceeds of £26 
million, but the impact on die 
overall level of borrowings was 
negligible because of further 
investment at Pont Royal, a 
residential golf complex in the 
south of France. L&M has 
brought in Pierre & Vacances 
as development partner there. 
The Pont Royal golf course is 
to be officially opened by Seve 
Ballesteros next month. 

The 1 99 1 figures contained 
only £5 million of writedowns, 
after £8S million of provisions 
in 1990. Most of the £5 
million relates to the value of a 

26.000 sq ft unlet office block 
on the edge of the City of 
London. Mr Harris said L&M 
currently had a total of 

200.000 sq ft of unlet space 
around the country, although 

40.000 sq ft of this was under 
offer. 

A revaluation of the compa- 
ny’s £20 million investment 
portfolio produced no further 
reduction in value. 



Wanted on board: a Harrier takes off from a Spanish aircraft carrier during Nato manoeuvres in May 


£ 1 40m Harrier order for BAe and R-R 


By Ross Tieman. industrial correspondent 


BRITISH Aerospace and 
Rolls-Royce will share work 
worth some £140 million as a 
result of an imminent order 
by Italy for Harrier fighters. 
The Italian government indi- 
cated its intention to order 13 
of the aircraft by the end of 
October. 

The order will be for the 
latest version of the aircraft, 
the short take-off and landing 
Harrier AV-8B Plus, devel- 
oped by McDonnell Douglas 
with Italian and Spanish part- 


ners. However, around £90 
million of work on the £260 
million contract will fall to 
BAe. which pioneered tbe 
Harrier and remains a leader 
in the programme. 

Centre and rear fuselage 
sections for the £20 million 
plane will be built by BAe at 
Brough. Humberside, and 
Dunsfold. Surrey. The contact 
will help to secure jobs at the 
two plants. Rolls-Royce, 
which provides the Pegasus 
engine to power the Harrier, 


is expected to receive around 
£50 million of work from die 
order. The engines will be 
built at Rolls's Bristol plant 

Delivery from the UK 
plants for final assembly of 
the aircraft in Italy is expect- 
ed to begin in mid-1993. and 
to be spread over two years. 

Italy has already bought 
two training versions of file 
Hairier to prepare pilots to fly 
the warplanes from the new 
carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi. 
Because the I talian navy wiO 


need a shore-based back-up 
squadron, it is thought likely 
that Italy might order more 
Hamers later. Spain, tbe 
third partner in tbe develop- 
ment programme, has yet to 
place an artier for aircraft. 

Other versions of the Harri- 
er are in operation with the 
Royal Navy, the US Marine 
Corps and the Indian navy 
and the aircraft saw combat 
service in the Gulf war. Rolls- 
Ryce makes the power-plants 
for all variants. 



Mersey Docks lifts 
profits and payout 


THE Mosey Docks and Harbour Company, in which the 
government retains a 20 per cent shareholding, increased 
interim profits from £5-46 million before tax to E7.63 mfflion 
after a 1 5 per cent rise in the volume of cargo handled by the 
Port of Liverpool With volumes rising to 1 3 million tonnesin 
the six months to end-June, the port enjoyed the benefit of the 
transfer of operations of Coastal Container Line from 
Ellesmere Port to the Royal Seafortb container terminal 
Turnover rose from £29. 19 million to £42 million after the 
consolidation for the first time of Merfin Stevedores and 
Coastal Container Line, both of which operate at lower 
margins than the core business. Operating profits were £7.78 
million, up from £5.6 million. The interim dividend is 
increased from 2p a share to 2.5p. payable from earnings of 
8. 12p a share, up from 6.99p. 


EFT edges ahead 


TIGHT control of costs helped pre-tax profits at EFT Group, 
fiie Scottish financial services company, advance from 
£5 1 0.000 to £706.000 in the first half of fins year. Earnings 
rose from 1 .09p to 1.49p a share and tbe interim dividend is 
raised from 0.33p to 0.40p. Total revenue increased from 
£3.66 million to £3.7 million, with a 13 per cent rise from 
continuing activities- EFT expects the difficult trading 
conditions to continue in the second half, but remains 
“ cautio usly optimistic”. 


Cowie expected to fad 


THE last assault by T Cowie on Henlys, its takeover target, 
has left the stock market unmoved. With the Cowie shares up 
Ip to I20p. its seven-fbr-ten offer values Henlys at 84p. 
However, the market expects the bid to fail and sellers pushed 
Henlys down 2p to 65p. Henlys now stands little higher than 
the 57p level just before the bid was announced. Cowie’s bid 
values fiie rival motor distributor at £30 million. The offer 
doses next Tuesday. 


Interim loss at Porth 


PORTH, a Christmas decorations company, lost El. 84 
million pre-tax (£1 .82 million loss) in the sue months to June 
30. Turnover was £2.76 million (£2.47 million). Restructur- 
ing brought exceptional costs of £292^000 (£105.000). but a 
£325 million rightsissoe last year has reduced interest payable 
from £423.000 to £1 80,000. Porth typically makes a first-half 
loss and the results are in line with expectations. The 
company has not paid a dividend since June 1 990. 


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117 hadram St London EOM 5AL. 
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StaeUdna Horae 4 Sadr Bridge Lone. 
Umdon SEI 2HR. 071 3787479 
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BUSINESS NEWS 17 



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HSBC Holdings, the parent 
“ Hongkong Bank, has 
shrugged off huge Olympia & 
York bad debt provisions to 
race to a 39 per owit advance 
in interim pre-tax profits for 
the six months to end June. 
The first-half results are the 
last before the inclusion of 
consolidated results from 
Midland Bank, acquired in 
July. 

HSBC said h Had made 
provisions of US$1 88 million 
against its total exposure to 
O&Y of US$768. million, 
slightly lower than the 
US$787 million figure given 
in June. 

Total bad debt provisions 


rose 63 per cent to HK&4.48 
billion (£305. million). General 
provisions had been increased 
“in view of the uncertainworid 
outlook", HSBC said. It add- 
ed that the proposals for the 


restructuring 

Yorkwerer*" 


H __ — /wont 

toned and “additional specific 
provisions will be made in the 
remainder of the current year 
if deemed appropriate". 

Most of HSBC group's ex- 
posure to O&Y. some US$750 
million, is secured by control- 
ling stakes in Abitibi-Price Inc 
and Gulf Canada Resources. 
Ariced whether HSBC expect- 
ed to recover the Olympia & 
York loans, William Purves, 


ted to Japan to stimulate 

economy this week 






By Colin Narbrough, economics correspondent 


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A MEGA-PACKAGE of mea- 
sures to lift Japan’s sagging 
economy and stock market is 
to be unveiled on Friday, 
Tsutomu Hata, the finance 
minister, said yesterday. 

Anticipation of imminent 
cabinet approval of the 8.000 
billion yen ($63 billion} fiscal 
package has already given 
investor confidence a boost, 
pushing the Nikkei share 
price average up more than 
2.300 points in a four-day 
rally. 

The measures are likely to 
include increased investment 
in public works and a scheme 
to help financial institutions 
cope with bad debt Mr Hala 
said the government would do 
whatever was necessary to 
avoid a financial crisis, possi- 
bly setting up a body to buy 
back land held as collateral 
against bad loans. 

To provide further support 
for foe Tokyo stock market, 
Mr Hata said the government 
would not go ahead in foe 
current fiscal year with the 
planned disposal of 500.000 
shares the govenunehtfiddfn 
Nippon Telegraph and Tele- 
phone Corporation. 

But ministers appear diyid- 1 
ed over how to pay for foe 
stimulatoiy package, which 
wiD be the largest ever ap- 
proved by the Japanese gov- 


ernment Mr Hata made dear 
yesterday that he opposed 
issuing deficit-covering bonds 
to meet any shortfall m reve- 
nue this year. That pctKcy is 
advocated by Mfchio Wata- 
nabe. the deputy prime minis- 
ter and foreign minister. 

Mr Hata’s resistance to 

firianring foe floral pariragp 

with debt issues has run into 
criticism- Business leaders and 
politicians have started to 
adopt foe issue of government 
bands as a symbol of . fall 
government commitment ■ to 
restoring health to the econo- 
my and the financial markets. 

Japanese market sentiment 
is likely to be encouraged by 
yesterday's announcement 
that long-term credit banks 
intend to cut their long-tenn 
prime rale by 0w4 of a percent- 
age point, toi 5.7 per cent from 
. September 1. The decision 
followed the monthly review of 
prime rates based on tire 
coupon • on five-year bank 
debentures. 

The Bank of Japan’s month- 
ly economic review, published 
‘yesterday. Shorted the ecdrio- 
my still .slewing, re flecting , 
weaker consumption growth 
and -slow stock' adjustment Tiy 
industry. The bank-said severe 
production mfoacks wfflprob- 
ahJy be prolonged in' most 
industries. 


the chair man, said: “Wefl I’m 
always hopeful. I’m an opti- 
mist ai heart but its loo early 
to say." 

Rod Barrett, an analyst at 
Goldman Sachs, foe invest- 
ment backing group, said: 
"The provisions, wen; a bit 
higher than . expected." He 
said be had expected the O&Y 
provision to come through in 
the second half, but that 
operating profits were suffi- 
ciently strong to take the fait 
now. 

- Overall, the results came in 
at the top end of expectations 
and were welcomed by ana- 
lysts. In London, the ordinary 
shares rose 3p to 308p before 
foiling back to. dose at 306p. 
One London broker said; ~/fs 
about the only bit of blue on 
tbesoeea." 

Profits before tax were 
HK&7.67 billion, up from 
HK$5.51 billion for the same 
period last you-. The interim 
dividend was increased 30 per 
cent, for higher than expected, 
to HK$0.705 (4.8p) from 
HK$034. The group has 
forecast a final dividend of not 
less than 9.4p, making I4.2p 
for foe year, in line with 
market expectations. Net prof- 
its rose 51 per cent to 
HK$5.03 bfflkm. 

HSBC which beat off 
Lloyds Bank to snatch control 
of Midland, is already incor- 
porated in Britain and plans 
to move hs headquarters to 
London. “Measures designed 
to adifove the benefits of the 
merger have already started 
and are proceeding well.” 
HSBC said. 

The group added that “with 
few signs of imminent recov- 
ery in the major industrialised 
economies foe outlook, for foe 
rest of 1992 remains uncer- 
tain. Most of the South East 
Asian economies, however, 
are expected' to enjoy riartin- 
ued growth and in Hong 
Kong the momentum is likely 
to he . maintained, although 
ament trade disputes between 
the . USA and China are a 
cause for concern"! 

HSBC said weighted ride 
assets had /alien' sJigfrdy at 
June 30 compared with foe 
end of last year. The overall 
capita] ratio strengthened as a 
result of higher net reserves. 
Her . one and total capital 
ratios were 9.4 per cent and 
12.6 per cent respectively. 



Expansive mood: in spite of a slip in interim pre-fax profits to E4.5S million (£5.08 million) P! 
executive, said Graseoy. formerly Cambridge Electronic Industries, would continue to grow. ' 
at £5 1 million (£49.4 million} and the dividend is held at 33p. The shares fell 34p to 1 33p. * 


rite of a slip in interim pre-tax profits to E4.5S million (£5.08 million) Paul Lester, chief 

" L ” * J — ' — ,J * “ .Turnover was up 

Tempus, page 18 


Wates sees 
conditions 
improving 


Wales City of London Proper- 
ties reports lower profits, but 
has detected foe first signs of 
improvement in the City prop- 
erty market Pre-tax profits fell 
1 8 per cent to 0.74 minion in 
the first half of this year. The 
interim dividend is held at 
0.77p. 


Cook in black 


DC Cook made an annual 
protax profit of £121.000 
(£1.5 million loss). A final 
dividend of 0;5p makes Ip 
(same). 


Societies suffer £32 5m outflow 


By Sara McConnell 


INVESTORS last month 
withdrew £325 million more 
from building societies than 
they put in. It was the largest 
net withdrawal in a single 
month since 1 986. foe Budd- 
ing Societies Association said. 
In June, the net withdrawal 
was £314 million. Net inflow 
in foe first seven months of the 
year was only £18 million. 

Adrian Coles, head of exter- 
nal relations at the association, 
said: "A relatively low level of 
net receipts is usual for this 
time of year as customers 
withdraw funds to finance 


holiday spending.*' He added 
that foe trend was exacerbated 
by competition from National 
Savings and by the call for 
final payments on regional 
electricity company shares. 

National Savings reported 
net receipts of £481 million in 
July, the highest figure since 
1984, when it look in £523 
million. The inflow was main- 
ly due to the success of the first 
option bond, launched at the 
beginning of July. The bond 
took in £299 million during 
tire three weeks of July that n 
was on sale. Despite a rate cut 


to 7.25 per cent net after 
protests from societies that 
they could not compete, the 
yield remains attractive. 

Grass mortgage advances 
rose to £3.7 bimon in July, up 
from £3,1 billion the preced- 
ing month. Net new commit- 
ments. at £3.4 billion, were 7 
per cent up on the previous 
month but still down on July 
last year. Mr Coles said the 
month-on-month increase was 
partly caused by some buyers’ 
desire to beat foe August 19 
deadline for reimposition of 
stamp duty. 


Hoover to 
cut jobs 
at UK 
factories 


From Philip Robinson 
in New York 


THE American parent of 
Hoover plans to shed jobs at 
its Welsh and Scottish fac- 
tories. which were expected to 
break even this year but will 
remain deeply in foe red 
instead. 

Maytag, the fourth largest 
home appliance maker in 
America, bought Hoover as 
part of a $1 billion deal in 
1989 and will take a $95 
million charge against third 
quarter profits to scale back its 
European operations, of 
which foe UK is by far foe 
laigest part. Hoover employs 
75 per cent of its 4,000 
European workforce in Brit- 
ain making vacuum cleaners, 
washing machines, tumble 
dryers, and dishwashers. 

A Maytag spokesman said 
yesterday: “There will be some 
rationalisation and redundan- 
cies. but I do not know how 
many at foe moment. We feel 
this is one way in which we 
can stop foe bleeding. We are 
not optimistic about Europe 
breaking even this year and 
even with foe downsizing we 
are heavily dependant on 
what happens to the economy 
in foe UK," he added. Maytag 
says losses at its Hoover 
Europe operations were much 
deeper than had been fore- 
seen. and would continue 
until foe end of this year. 

Mr Leonard Hadley. May- 
tag chief executive, said signif- 
icant cost cutting over the past 
two years had not been ade- 
quate in foe face of excess 
manufacturing capacity and 
there had been an unexpected 
deterioration of economic con- 
ditions in foe UK and other 
European countries. Maytag 
is expected to make a $43 
million loss in the three 
months ending September 
against a $24.2 million profit 
forthe same period a year ago. 


Darby falls 


Darby Group made an annu- 
al pre-tax profit of £285,000 
(£1.51 million). A final divi- 
dend of 0J8p (2 . 1 p) makes 2p 
(33& , . 


Trimoco profit 


Brieriey bids for Gibbs Mew 


By Our Gty Staff 


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GIBBS Mew, a brewer and 
properly developer based in 
Salisbury, Wiltshire, has ; re- 
ceived a takeover offer from its 
largest shareholder, Brieriey 
Investments, valuing it at £1 1 
million. 

The 200p^share offer 
compares with yesterday's 
opening share price of 183p. 
Brieriey said the offer repre- 
sented a 45 per cent premium 
to the Gibbs Mew share price 
before Brierieys July an- 
nouncement that it was core 
sidering bidding for the 80.3 
per cent of the company it did 
not already own. 

The Gibbs board said it bad 
“no hesitation in unanimously 


rqeding foe offer", which 
significantly undervalued as- 
sets and prospects. Sharehold- 
ers were advised to take no 
action. The Gibbs family and 
the board own 58 per cent of 
the company’s shares. 


But Stephen Bellamy, a 
director of BLL 


.BLL Consultants 
(UK), Brierieys UK subsid- 
iary. said: “We believe that 
Gibbs Mew has repeatedly 
failed to defiver on its opportu- 
nities, as is shown- by its 
disappointing record. Unless 
appropriate action is taken to 
address Gibbs Mew’s weak 
market position ' and poor 
profits oatlook. a further de- 
cline nr profitability, share 


price and shareholder value is 
inevitable." 

Brieriey appealed to foe 
. Gibbs family to act in all 
shareholders’ interests. It 
daimed that Gibbs Mew'S 
share price - had under- 
performed the brewing and 
distilling sector by 71 percent 
between January 1, 1 989, and 
July 29; 1992, and that the 


company's increasing invtrive- 
'haa harmed 


ment in property 
its brewing interests. 

' In the year to March 31, 
Gibbs Mew made pre-tax 
profits of £633,000 (£673.000) 
on turnover of £20!l million 
(£17.4 million) and earnings 
par share of M.9p (2 Ip). 


Trimoco forecasts that interim 
pre-tax profits will not be less 
than £1.2 million (£250,000 
loss) arid that foe total divi- 
dend for the year will be 
maintained at lp. 


Keny ahead 


Kerry Group made an interim 
pre-tax profit of Ii£10.6 mil- 
lion (£10 million), against 
M9.01 million last time and 
is paying an interim dividend 
of 0.79p (0.7 5p). 


Saab cats loss 


Saab Automobile’s interim 
loss fell to 800 million kronor 
(£78 million), compared with a 
Joss of 1.59 bUUon kronor. 


Astra rises 


Interim pre-tax profits at Astra 
of Sweden rose 33 per cent to 
2,326 million kronor (£227 
million). 



DOUBTS were 
about the outcome of today's 
£2-5 billion gilt auction as foe 
pound co n tin ued to Lose 
ground, increasing the pres- 
sure for a rise in interest rates. 

Prices again opened lower 
and continued drifting 
throughout the day, with the 
long gilt touching a low of 
£ 95 iJ /s 2 after foe pound 
dipped below the ^ DM2.79 
level following publication of 
the latest French poll on foe 
Maastricht Treaty, indicating 
a "no" vote. It later rallied to 
dose P/ift down on foe ses- 
sion at £95 * j /j» heavy 
turnover which saw 61,000 
contracts completed. Brokers 
say the market’s current vola- 
tility will make it difficult for 
fund manager to price their 
bids for the new stock. 

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short end suggest that a rise 
of up to 1 per cent in bank 
base rates is already being 
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Closing Prices Page 20 


British Gas pic. 
1992 Second 


Quarter Results. 




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;.: ; t wowid'qonhwir end haH year resphs were ' '* 
■ disapifitfoabiO, wWr’Mw UK 6a* Business *nrf, te e 
*nd Prodaction achievtag 
-Jewel! milflp irar«» foaa normal woether. ■ 
Alfobogb s*|o* th foo Mirlfl s actor of foe UK Q*b 
"S. Bi hhimmki mwatMicf ahead of 1991 on A seasqoatiy • - 

- ae^utted basis, Mtes-tofoO firm contract market' 

.... -y.ieofta&iaafohf hnwr w cp»pot*to« Increased their 

market The profit outcome lor the hift. 

' year 2* 15fa»1y to bft&Mwer then 1961 unless the 

weafoor panero to foe period Ssrnember - December 
. . ' is very touch cgftfor ftaw seasonally normal. 

; . From 9 regatirtory standpoint, foe CofOpeny has 
. experienced n«tfDerou»s}oo ifleant chanflos since ■ . 

• >■ privaUsiiUoa^ lewflna foU y*»r 

wMh foe . Office of Fair 7redmg on a wide 

- *; rMfoeof chsnpes toTeairactare foe UK Gas 

• fi&wteess is order to assist competition furfoor. 
Vafom&mderfakings la rasped of the resmictoriog 
hmt^d tp.ba iroptofnentod to aoreement with either . 
. . of FaJr.TrdiB^g or aJtoreaefiirehf with the ' 

O^flce pf Gas Sapp^, end it bec*m* apparent that . 
rrf lames, la particular fbe rate <rf 
", return- on foe qm trerisportslion sysnm. than was 
'• no esetfefactory asreement beirtfi - 

. Teactied wifo tha CHf ice ot Gas Svppty. The Boanl 
ijm* Kw.v*ew th*t * compreheo»re and mdependant 
■; •. v 5ott*y Jay the Stifoopofies and Merger* Cosmiisefan . 
■■■*■ foe a^enqrtabetaneo the needs of. foe 

; ' cusfoujorw' shareholders, euppflei* end 

V '. «n accorfoggi y - 

tin 3i jMyaaltefofoA'., . . 

3 *ros«eirt.dffoefoiwrd-Af 
3W6&e.for ss MUG riiwIAw, 

•: of foe wMi. Of tho OK Gas 
. SusimK*. t&H tnqifojr waA- " 

■ 'J ^Mi^ai'ced ^ufcechtrea t ty - 
..by foe Department o/ Trada 
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pi«foefohip.w%-j^, foe. 

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1 and wfitnowenler info-' ' 


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■ nagotiatlons aro seoiso*i*ni^|fce Coatpai^a oa'ajtd.'. 
■ -gas 

crea^fomfoketst*s*aotiMfoiai»«lle» df gas to i- 

>fo»maai Sttnopo.; ' ; ;' t . 

' On apenronai eofe, {'was ta’anhauace ' ; 

last month the aj^oinroiaht of Cedric BroWh as 
. Chief Execufom with effect ^rom f ‘ • 


OMdeed. • ' • 

The Eoardhas dectoredan interim tUvldendol &A . 
pea* ordinary shhro. ra®. IW^'Inteirim dividend ■ 
til not corop&rabfa wtfo a rfonfoof fori ; 

change fo acconnUns ritferjehoe dam. from 9t Marifo 
to 3.1 Docemtmr-'h 199tr 



-Bofrcr* OmMW. flffon*' fia* pt*.' 28 Anowit Wt9,\ 


’The interim dhrldomj^f fi.cpence afoper ordinary, 
efnuie wat be j»S3.oo i« Oecemher .foe* f of ' 

shareholders on. foe reaJ»!er as foe cJoSe.of tiaslitess 
.ott.9Hwren*«e..1§(»2.''‘ .' 

. Copies 'pffoe'f992. Secowt Queffor^ftwitffits . 
available f ro»n:efft{s& G» (^.Shareholder Empdry 
OfQce. Rlvet^l Hooiei 152 raoseaoor t&Hul, . . 
iu«td^SWtvm.Tfl!epfuMwOri 834 2900 . 


BRITISH GAS PLC. 1992 SECOND QUARTER RESULTS 


3 months 


6 months 



ended 30 Mine 

ended 

30 June 


1M2 

test 

1092 

1891 


£M 

£M 

£M 

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turnover 

1924 

2188 

5509 

5877 

Current coet operating profit/floas) 

(1«) 

233 

905 

1255 

Net interest and gearing adjustment 

J66) 

(SO) 

(187) 

(89) 

Current cost profit/ (loss) before taxation 

(82) 

183 

778 

t15B 

Taxation 

14) 

_m) 

(280) 

(413) 

Current cost profh/(!oss) after taxation 

(86) 

99 

468- 

743 

Minority shareholders' interest 

Profit/ (toss) attributable to British Gas 

— z - 

— - 

2 

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shareholders 

(88) 

99 

500 

741 

Historical cost profit/floss) before taxation 

_J1Z> 

247 

915 

1307 

Earnings/ (loss) per ordinary share 

1W2 Interim Dividend 

1993 Interim Dividend per ordinary share 

-&2>p 


11.70 

£27sm 

-Up 

17.40 


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18 MARKETS AND ANALYSIS 


THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


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Sterling weakness punishes shares 


INVESTORS in the equity 
market had to contend with 
another turbulent session as 
pressure fora rise in bank base 
rates increased Further weak- 
ness in the pound and bearish 
news combined to drag prices 
lower. At one stage, the FT-SE 
10Q index was down another 
50.5 points, before eventually 
rallying to finish 30.1 points 
lower at 2,28 ! , a two-day fall 
Of 84 points. 

Trading remained thin and 
nervous, with the turnover of 
537 million shares swollen by 
a £140 million programme 
trade carried out the previous 
evening by Smith New Court 
The market-makers remained 
in full control, marking prices 
sharply lower eveiy time the 
latest rumour or piece of bad 
news found its way into the 
marketplace. 

An early rumour, originat- 
ing from the options market, 
suggested that Norman 
Lament, the Chancellor, had 
resigned. This was quickly 
denied by the Bank of Eng- 
land. Then came the news 
from France that one of three 
polls on the Maastricht rreary 
referendum indicated a "no" 
vote, the others being margin- 
ally in favour. 

This put renewed pressure 
an the pound which briefly 


dipped below 2.79 marks, 
adding to the flow of opinion 
suggesting that a rise in inter- 
est rates was imminent 

The activity in the foreign 
exchange market also pulled 
the rag from under the futures 
market which fell to 2,269 
before rallying. Sentiment was 
also dented by an opening fall 
of about 20 points on Wall 
Street The Dow Jones indus- 
trial average later managed to 
daw back, its earlier losses. 
This also enabled London to 
recover some of its poise before 
the dose. 

Leading shares, especially 
those with a dollar flavour, 
again came under the ham- 
mer. ICI fell 1 5p to £10.74. 
Glaxo 1 2p to 689p, Wdteome 
1 2p to 792p and Coartaulds 
23p to 429p. 

Dealers also had to contend 
with several profit warnings 
from leading companies. Brit- 
ish Gas dropped 9p to 236p 
after cutting tariffs to its 18 
million domestic customers by 
a further 2 per cent and giving 
a warning that pre-tax profits 
for the full year are likely to fall 
short of those achieved last 
time. 

The news coincided with a 
29 per cent drop in net income 
to £637 million in the first half 
after the company dropped 



into the red during the second 
quarter. Chairman Robert Ev- 
ans there would be a profits 
shortfall unless consumption 
was boosted by odder weather 


for 1992 will be virtually in 
line with last year’s figure of 
£950 million. It blamed the 
recession and the weaker dol- 
lar. The forecast was made 


Shares in BAA the independent airports operator, were 
unchanged at 65 5p, helped by a buy recommendation from 
Bikuben-Whitefriars. The broker is forecasting pre-tax profits 
for the current year of £290 million (agamst £192 millRui) and 
above-average earnings growth. 


this autumn. Grand Metro- 
politan. the drinks and food 
group, tumbled 34p to 378p, 
also after issuing a warning 
indicating that pre-tax profits 


after the group announced a 
$600 million fixed-rate, debt- 
refinancing operation. 

GrandMet has promised to 
pay a final dividend of 7.7p, 


making a rise of 8.4 percent 
But this failed to impress 
brokers, who had already pen- 
tilted in pre-tax profits of 
about £1.1 billion. The board 
met BZW at lunch TO outline 
its position. Kleirrwort Ben- 
son, the broker, remains a 
buyer of GrandMet and rival 
brokers. County NatWest and 
Smith New Court are urging 
their dfehts TO take advantage 
of the weakness to buy the 
shares. 

The news from GrandMet 
also hit the rest of the drinks 
sector, with Bass easing 7p to 
495p in the. wake of a 
downgrading by Kleinwort 
Benson. Than were also falls 
for AUied-Lyoos, 12p to 5 6 Op, 
GreenaBs, 14p to 333p,.Scot- 
tish & Newcastle. 8p to 4 15p, 
Vanx Group. 7p to 153p, 
Whitbread A, 13pto377p. 

The one bright spot in the 
drinks sector was Gibbs Mew. 
foe USM-quoted regional 
brewer, which jumped 15p to 
198p after a bid approach 
from Briertey Investments, 
headed by Sir Ron Briedey, 
foe New Zealand business- 
man. He plans to offer 200p a 
share and already owns a 
stake in the company. But foe 
Gibbs Mew board, account- 
ing for 59 per cent of the 
shares, rejected the offer. 


The weaker dollar also took 
its toll on British Steel down 
2»ip at as County 

NatWest reiterated its bearish 
fflanre Co unty warns that a 
depressed dollar will result in 
prolonged economic stagna- 
tion in Europe and also mate 
it difficult for European pro- 
ducers to reverse foe trend in 
steel prices. 

M<yer International the 
timber and building supplies 
group, fell 1 3p to 243p. There 
is talk that one leading broker 
is warning clients today of a 
cut in the dividend. 

The insurance composites 
remained under a doud as 
Hurricane Andrew continued 
to wreak havoc in southern 
American states. 

Lnsuranoe claims are expect- 
ed TO soar, with one estimate 
putting the damage in Florida 
at more than $20 triflion. 
There were losses for Com- 
merriaJ Union, 5p TO 44 8p. 
General Accident 8pto409p, 
Guardian Royal Exchange. 
3p to 1 26p, and Sim Alliance, 
7p to 217p. But Royal Insur- 
ance, which fell sharply on 
Monday on suggestions that it 
had foe biggest exposure to 
A merica, rallied 3p to 14Sp. 


Michael Clark 


TEMPOS 


GrandMet finds itself running to stay still 


AS one of Britain's biggest 
dollar earners, GrandMet's 
trading statement served as a 
timely reminder that the 
forthcoming reporting season 
may contain same unpleasant 
surprises from foe other side 
of the pond. 

Sir Allen Sheppard's warn- 
ing that pre-tax profits m the 
year to end-September were 
likely to be around last year’s 
figure of £950 million, rather 
than the £! billion plus flat 
the stock market was hoping 
for, was enough to knock 33p 
off the share price and was a 
significant contributor to the 
FT-SE 100’s pre-Wall Street 
fall of 30 points. Where 
GrandMet leads, others are 
likely to follow. 

The warning accompanied 
news that GrandMet was pru- 
dently converting another 
$600 million of short-term 
debt into fixedrrate. tong-term 
securities. The refinancing 
means that the percentage of 
GrandMet’s £2.4 billion bor- 
rowings that mature in more 
than five years rises from 15 
per cent to over 25 per cent 

Prudent the refinancing 
may have been, but it was 
overshadowed by the trading 
update. The good news was 
that sales at Pills bury, the 
American food subsidiary, 
were 7 per cent up on a year 
ago. The bad news was that 


margins, particularly at 
Green Giant the frozen and 
tinned food business, are 
under massive pressure, hit 
by an over supply of vegeta- 
bles and a price war. 

Also hit hard has been 
Pearl e. the eye care group, 
where reports of a spring 
recovery in sales are likely to 
prove expensively short-sight- 
ed. In Britain, Chef & Brewer 
continues to be hit by a 
recession that has seen beer 
sales fall 10 percent in parts 
of the South-East 

At 379p. the shares are on a 
price/ earnings multiple of 
over 12, which with dividend 
cover of 2.5 times and interest 
cover of over 10 times. looks 
attractive. 


Graseby 


GRASEBY has changed its 
spots since it was Cambridge 
Electronics Industries, and 
has on the 1992 drawing 
boards several potentially 
profitable, and promising, 
product developments. 

The group acquired Tace 
and Goring Kerr in 1991, and 
is a leader in the field of 
identifying foreign objects in 
food — a growing market 
under tougher health legisla- 
tion. Graseby is working on 
the definitive detection of 
Semtex. the explosive, while 



Dollar earner Sir Allen Sheppard of GrandMet 


its expertise in emission mon- 
itoring widely applied within 
the pulp and paper industry, 
is now being deployed in 
American utilities with a 
dean-up budget of $100 mil- 
lion. But the end of the Gulf 
war and reduced world ten- 


sion have inevitably checked 
the group's defence profits. 
The general recession has also 
taken its tofl. 

Pre-tax profits at £4.56 
million for foe six months to 
end June compare with £5.08 
million previously. The inter- 


im dividend is held at 33p a 
share bat yearend profit fore- 
casts have been lowered and 
nagging doubts about this 
year’s final have surfaced. 
Because interest cover is a 
respectable five times, 
Graseby is relaxed about gear- 
ing which is likely to be 70 per 
cent at year end. Property 
sales, asset disposals and a 
reduced head count wiD assist 
costs, and if certain defence 
contracts are won the year’s 
outcome may not be so dulL 
But some profits setback is 
inevitable, and £9.5 million 
against £103 million would 
leave a maintained J0.9p 
dividend thinly covered At 
I33p. down 34p, the 10.9 per 
cent yield lends some support 
to a share that wfll shine once 
economies improve. 

Bridon 

THERE must be a touch of 
sympathy for Bridon. the 
Doncaster manufacturer of 
wire rope products, which has 
quite innocently been caught 
up in corruption inquiries in 
Italy. Not that Bridon has 
done anything wrong far 
from it But it seems that 
Italian contractors, fearing 
they may not be paid if 
inquiries into alleged corrup- 
tion by Italian public officials 
bear fruit have pot tbeir 


orders with Bridon on bokL 
As far as John West the 
chairman, is concerned, this 
in part explains Bridon’s lade 
of headway. 

Pre-tax profits improved to 
£700,000 (£100,000) in the 
half year to end-Jtme on 
turnover of £1623 mini on 
(£161.6 mfition), but the gains 
do not reflect any easing of 
the gloom. Sales are down in 
Sweden. America and Austra- 
lia. The only solution, it 
seems, is to sweat it out while 
doing a bit of pr unin g. Staff 
numbers were reduced 13 per 
cent to 4.700 at a cost of £4 
milli on in the last financial 
year, and the company says 
more cuts are inevitable. 

Ironically, it is lower redun- 
dancy costs of £500,000 in foe 
past six months — compared 
with an exceptional item of 
£2-7 million last time — that 
are behind the gains in pre- 
tax profits and boosted earn- 
ings per share to 13p (03p). 
The interim dividend falls to 
J35p (2.5(4 * share. Bridon 
experts to be one of the last 
out of the recession, so share- 
holders are in for a long wait 

The company is expected to 
make £2 million for the year 
and pay a total dividend of 4p, 
putting foe shares on a new 
prospective yield of 93 per 
cent at yesterday's price of 
56p,down Ip. 





Consumer report hits 
shares in New York 


New York — Shares were 
lower in choppy, late-morning 
trading after an unexpectedly 
weak consumer confidence 
figure for July and some 
bearish news for foe dollar 
erased earlier gains. The Dow 
Jones industrial average 
slipped 8.17 points to 3320, 
having been as low as 3307 
and as high as 3,235. 

□ Tokyo — Prices ended low- 
er in seesaw trading, with the 
Nikkei index fluctuating. The 
Nikkei MI 247.19 points, or 
1.49 per cent, to 16,380.77. 
Turnover dropped to about 
400 million shares, compared 
with 564 million on Monday. 
Q Frankfurt — An atmo- 


sphere of gloom sent the 
market plunging another 2 
per cent to a new 18-month 
law. The Dax index fell 29.83 
points TO 1.46S.91, its lowest 
dose since February 8, 1991. 
□ Hong Kong - Shares fin- 
ished lower on a renewed bout 
of overseas selling that wiped 
out earlier bargain-hunting 

efforts at midday. The Hang 
Seng index ended down 
99.44 points, or 1 .84 percent, 
at 539 1.49. 

D Sydney — The share mar- 
ket dosed at its lowest level in 
1 4 months. The all-oniinaries 
index fefl 22.2 points to 
1,5173. its lowest dose since 
June 28. 1991. (Reuter) 



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Abbey Nail jjoo 1 

Coats vy la 

1.100 | 

1 Legal ft On 2X30 1 

1 Ryl Bk SOU 2-200 

Alld-l-yons 

3AQ0 

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786 1 

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1^00 

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2.100 

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375 

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888 

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611 

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3,900 

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BAT tods 

1700 

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2X00 

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7,Prtl 

Slebe 

2.400 

BET 

2.»1 

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2,100 

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2.900 

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BOC 

1.200 

GUS A 

261 

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1X00 

Smith Nph uoo 

BP 

14X00 

Gen acc 

514 

PftO 

1X00 

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BT 

3800 

gcti Ejec 

5X00 

Pearson 

420 

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3-800 

Glaxo 

4.000 

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2-300 

Bk or Scot 

2XC0 

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FowerCen 

8X00 

Tate ft Lyle 2.4CD 

Barclays 

2X00 

Guinness 

1.900 

Prudential 

6X00 

Tesco 

3-200 

Bass 

1-300 

HSBC 

6.900 

RMC 

IJOO 

Thames w 

2X00 

Blue Circle 

1.400 

Hanson 

8JOO 

RTZ 

1JOI 

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Boots 

3X00 

HlUsdown 

2.100 

Rank Org 

776 

Tomkins 

364 

Bowarer 

351 

Id 

1.900 

RecUtt Col 

1-300 

Unilever 

1.700 

Brit acio 

1.100 

India pe 

982 

Redland 

530 

uni Blsc 

1.900 

Bm Alrwys 2x00 

Kingfisher 

1.400 

Reed ind 

761 

Vodafone 

6.500 

Bril Gas 

11,000 

LASMO 

2.400 

Reruokll 

772 

Welcome 

4X00 

Brli Steel 

32X00 

Ladbrote 

4.900 

Reuters 

406 

whitbd’A' 

301 

Cable Wire 

1 J500 

Land secs 

921 

Rolls Royce 1.400 

WUms Hid 

553 

Cadbury 

1X30 

Lapone 

284 

1 Rothmans 

283 1 

wimscrm 

2.900 


MAJOR INDICES 


New York (midday): 

Dow Jones 3226.01 1-2 16j 

SAP Contposne 410.39 (-0.33) 

Tokyo: 

NflcketAVge 16380.77 (-247.19) 

Hong Kong: 

Hang Seng 5291.49 f-9944) 

Amsterdam: 

CBS Tender*!? — 106.9 (-0.9) 

Sydney.AO 1517.3 c-22.2) 

Frankfurt: 

DAX 1468.91 (-29.83) 


FTSE Euro 100: 997.71 (-12.81) 
Brussels: 

General 5326.77 (-95.40) 

Paris: CAC 469.58 f-3.97) 

Zurich: SKA Gen 408.2 (-3.1) 

London; 

FT A All-Share 1086.131-12.85) 

FT 500 1229.13 (-14-25) 

FT Gold Mines 80J (-2.1) 

FT Freed Interest 103.32 (-0.74) 

FT Govt Secs 87.56 (-0-34J 

Bargains 19218 

SEAQ Volume 537.7m 

USM (Daiastrml 1 12.14 (-1.09) 


TRADITIONAL OPTIONS 


First Dealings 

August 17 


Last Dealings 

Aripast 28 


Last Dedarauoo For Sentanem 
November 12 Norember23 


Can options were taken out on 25/8/92; Allied Leisure. Ladbrofce. LQley. M arson 
Thompson. Earners. Royal Insurance. Tarmac. Tipbouk, Trafalgar House. 

Pul: Barlows. Pul A Cafc BET. 






Period 

FT-SE 100 Sep 92 _ 

Previous open bunac 48475 Dec 92 _ 

Three Month Statins Sep 92 .. 

Previous open interest 254934 Dec92- 

Mir 93 

Three Mth Eurodollar Sep 92 _ 
Previous open interne 28678 Dec 92 _ 

Three Mth Euro DM Sep 92 . 

Previous open tamest: 372394 Dee 92 _ 

US Treasury Bond Sep 92 - 

Previous open imbm 3242 Dec 92 „ 

Long Gilt Sep 92 _ 

Prewar open intense 77465 Dec 92 _ 

Japanese Govim Bond sep 92 , 

Dec 92 (06.48 

Gemian Govml Bond Sep92 - 

Previous cqien interest: 121 (49 Dec 92 _ 

Three month ECU Sep92- 

Previous open imerese 12596 Dec 92- 

Euro Swiss Franc Sep92 . 

Previous open imerese 52610 Dec 92 - 

Italian Govmt Bond SepQ2- 

Prerixu open interetc 38431 Dee 92- 


Open 

High 

Lore 

Close Votane 

2306J) 

23I4X 

2256X 

2284X 

19392 

2349.0 

23S9X 

2305X 

2330.5 

2393 

89.20 

89.25 

88.96 

89X5 

20398 

8926 

89 Jl 

89.00 

89X8 

51567 

89.72 

89.74 

89,44 

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457 

96.28 

96.34 

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1S66 

9021 

90-24 

90.18 

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14372 

90-38 

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104-31 

104-20 

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810 

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96-14 

95-13 

95-21 

61021 

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106.98 

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106-89 

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106.52 

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92.13 

11963 

92.65 

92.93 

92.28 

92.40 

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93/46 

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93.00 

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924 


UFFE OPTIONS 


Scries Od 


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ffSO'jl 600 1 1 

ASDA 20 1't 

(■24) 25 3 

Boss 500 21 

P407'i) 525 11 

Boob- — 420 34 
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220 l‘i 

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P49C4 500 24 

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420 

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420 

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110 

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40 

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17. 

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91X1 

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15 

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95 U 

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55 

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51 

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280 

20 

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1-226) 240 

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(*1861 200 
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P133',) 140 

Lucas 90 

P95l 100 

PSO 300 

1*303*, I 330 
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1*228) 240 

RTZ_ 5t» 

r502’i) 550 

Scot New . 420 
r#l5* 460 

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R20‘]) 240 

Thames W 420 
1*439) 460 

Vodafone- 280 
1*291) 300 


40 57 69 

18 32 47 
45 67 74 
22 41 49 
32 43 48 
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20 29 Jl 
27 34 40 
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ISO 

112 

74 

43 

25 

12 

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202 

143 

110 

84 

59 

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187 

138 

109 

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240 

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118 

90 

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210 

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139 

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63 

93 

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44 

58 

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103 

102 

162 

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40 

60 

64 

107 

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156 

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REPORT: London coffee opened higher as expected against 
a stronger New York dose. Strong commission house buying 
during the morning helped levels along to trade higher by 
midday. The afternoon saw a steady tone without the 
aggressive buying. Raw sugar prices were mixed. Whites 
pnees erased earlier small gains to dose unchanged to slightly 
easier. 


DON DON FOX 
COCOA 

Sep 612-611 Dec— 752-750 

Dec 64 1-640 Mar 7S 1-776 

Mar. 671-670 May 797-795 

Mpy t«M>89 Jul 825-810 

Jul 709-707 

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ROBUSTA COFFEE A 

sep 741-738 May 792-788 

Nov 762-161 JnJ 807-797 

Jan — 770-769 Sep 825-800 

Mar 779-778 Volume: 2336 

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Spot 219* An* 1 92.090. 0 

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Spec 275.5 Aug 264.7-63.1 

Oa 257.0-56.6 Oa 2553-53.6 

Dee 2530-52.1 Dee 2560-53 1 

Mar 256 0-55.1 Volume 4 13 


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118.45 

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hurricane scare might have been overdone oD 
traders audged levds lower. 

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BUSINESS COMMENT 19 


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Franc and lira in 
ERM trouble too 

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'^i*re 

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ft 


hould the French vote“no/r to the Maastricht 
tijeaty. John Major and Norman Lament seem 
likely ro face a simple alternative: e ither they 
^ r !!fL mterest 13165 01 rea 8 n - Even with hearty four 


wall 



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k. 


■ PouT & , 6 sienm s wzmw a pfennig of its Zu 
■' ?'j| ®£ Key currency and even nearer its limit a gafocf ^ 

. pel gi^n franc The Chancrilnr has aj> an liyfey fTp} i»rtwt 

■ . r s> : leaving the ERM or devaluing sterling within it, The 
/>i]* ji prime minister has committed himself to maintaixi- 

J ; ; ^ : m S a DM2.95 central parity whatever ha pp ens to 
; ,v rsi other currencies. 'Die market however, thinks die 
‘ •■’■■ lir pound’s rate against the mark is commerciaSy 
unrealistic. 

The trickier question facing Major and Lament is 
whether to rely on the reserves or raise interest rates 
temporarily before the referendum. Since the 
, government is so wholly committed to storting’s 
|... parity, the Bank of England should regard buying 
I*;, pound.- with die foreign exchange reserves as 
«: offering, eventually, a certain profit The Bank was 
• J- buying selectively yesterday rather than mounting 
| large-scale support If sterling fell to its limit; the 
| £.< Bank can borrow virtually without limit from the 
1 £_» Bundesbank and other ERM centra] batiks to fulfil 
£ its obligation to buy, but only for three months. The 
" risk is that an eventual interest rate rise might have to 
be larger and reserves would be depleted. 

The Chancellor's potential trump card, however, is 
that steriing is no longer die only ERM currency in 
trouble. The lira, weakest of the currencies in the 
narrow band, is right up against its cross limits in the 
grid and the French franc is also entering the danger 
zone. A French non would almost certainly trigger a 
run to the mark against the currencies of all ERM 
countries outside the closely linked Benelux coun- 
tries. They should press the Bundesbank to take the 
referendum risk with a temporary cut in German . 
interest rates. If the Germans say no, they will have to 
face a flood of marks created by intervention that win 
need to be sterilised. They will also be shown to be 
inviting, in die most positive way. French rejection of 
the treaty. The Bundesbank may be independent It 
is not meant to act as a political force. 

Humble gasmen 

B ritish Gas, in the limbo ofa full monopolies 
commissioD enquiry, sought to please every- 
one yesterday — its shareholders with a decent 
dividend increase and its customers with a further 
price cut that need not have been brought in until 
sometime next year. Even Cedric Brown, the new 
chief executive, conceded yesterday that British Gas’S 
traditional image of being “bureaucratic,, slow to 
change and averse to competition may be based on 
some reality”. He expressed no doubt that .the 
company wffl change in the fature. 

In the hands of die monopolies commission ft 
almost oeiteinty will, but the regulatory inroads 
already show. British Gas, imtike the electricity 
industry, was privatized in one huge lump and sold 
itself in the prospectus as die “largest integrated gas 
supply business in the western world”. But the giant 
is being humbled and 30 per cent of the industrial 
supply market has already been lost Mr Brown said 
that British Gas was“notriskfree”. He identified die 
risks as weather, competition and recession. How- 
ever, the cost cutting will have to go oh hold. He said 
that for the next nine to twelve months British Gas 
would be “fiddling around the edges in terms of cost 
cutting, which is unfortunate because there are 
tiling we need to do and should be doing”.Despite 
the handicaps he looks certain to make the best of 
what the monopolies commission leaves behind. 


After 200 years, W H Smith still 
seeks ways to fulfil its potential 


Wflliain Kay takes a 
dose look at the 
problems, created by 
competition, recession 
and diversification, 
feeing the retailer 


T 


odajy, WH Smith is the 
latest leading retailer to 
report on how it is weather- 
ing the recession. It does so 
agaznsr a steady trickle of selling that 
his taken the group's share price 
dangerously near to its low point for 
the year. 

The reasons for investor anxiety are 
not difficult to fathom. As foe 
counfry’s premier retailer of small 
luxuries and posrponabie necessities, 
it is more exposed than most to foe 
brant of foe recession. And since the 
196Qs it has had to fight an increas- 
ing^ tense struggle with competitors 
whose greatest advantage is that they 
have not been around for 200 years. 

There pressures are only exacerbat- 
ed \n its other activities newspaper 
wholesaling, office supplies, do-it- 
yourself stores and American hotel 
and airport shops. Paul Morris of 
Goldman Sachs, the analyst with 
arguably the dosest knowledge of the 
group, says: “They are tied to the 
economic cyde and that is still 
pointing downwards." 

Sir. Simon Homby, the group's 
chairman for the past ten years, is not 
one to he bog>ed down in short-term 
considerations, however. “If you look 
at our business overall I feel very 
optimistic," he insists. “We are in a 
deep recession, but I see growth 
potential in all our businesses. You 
have to have the confidence to say 
thal on tire other side there is a bright 
future. I never believe in doing thin^ 
if you don't see a bright future." 

Sir Simon, an elegant product of 
Eton, Oxford. Harvard and the 
Grenadier Guards, has presided over 
one of die most difficult decades in 
the group’s history. His family is 
intimately tied up with that history: 
his grandfather joined tire firm 99 
years ago. 

. The company's tale is a long and 
. romantic one — it celebrates its 
Tricentenary this year. The Times, 
founded seven years earlier, was 
leading the huge expansion of foe 
London press at tirat time, effectively 

i*tPflting rradf 

That prospect attracted Henry and 
Arina Snfitfa. parents' of WflBam 
Henry, the eponymous WH. They 
took a shop it) Little Grosvenor Street 
and established what . was then 
termed a newswaBc — the equivalent 
of today's paper round. Henry died 
within a fiwtnigbt and William 
Heuy was only 24 when Anna died. 

. -W H rapidly expanded foe opera- 

Londc^M^later.vsemng cm^the 
opportunity to establish bookstalls on 
station platforms when the railway 
network was hod down from the 
1840s onwards. 

So Smith was one of the first 
national retail names to be embed- 
ded in foe British public conscious- 
ness. The timing of the company's 



Long-sighted: in spite of the recession. Sir Simon Hornby. W H Smith chairman, sees a bright future 


- most important growth imbued it 
with Victorian values of honesty and 
reliability that served it well, at least 
for the first half of this century. 

However, by the 1960s Smith 
began to look stuffy. It was where the 
aunts and undes of the new genera- 
tion of shoppers bought bland and 
" inoffensive cards and presents for 
their nieces and nephews. . . .. . 

r " So tbe group embarked on a series 
of takeovers designed to widen its 
appeal The strategy was that the 
Smith drain would retain its long- 
lasting qualities of dependability, 
even if it was a shade predictable. 

• while tapping trendier pockets by 
acquiring Our Price. Paperchase, 
Waterstone’s and Virgin Records. 

'The record of the company is one 
of great potential unfulfilled." says 
Zak Ke shayj ee. of Williams de Broe, 

the stockbroker. 

• Sir Simon said: “People say that 
W H Smith is accident prone, but 
we’re prepared to tty new things and 
» take risks, in a way that manufactur- 
ing companies are always trying new 
products and Ming, often at a heavy 


cost. The public never see that, but 
unfortunately in retailing it’s difficult 
to disguise iL" 

Critics point to Waterstone’s as a 
symbol of how the Smith manage- 
ment was losing its touch. Tim 
Waterstone had joined Smith in 
1973, after earning his marketing 
spurs with Allied Breweries. He rose 
to be chairman of W H Smith (USA) 
by 1978. but fell out with his bosses 
three years later. He fulfilled every 
frustrated executive’s dream by start- 
ing a chain of bookshops in competi- 
tion with Smith — and in 1 989 they 
paid him the ultimate compliment of 
buying a controlling 50.5 per cent of 
Waterstone’s for £9 million. 


A! 


s Sir Simon puts it “Tim 
Waterstone developed an 
imaginative approach to 
.specialist bookselling, and 
the merger will create a bookselling 
business of the highest quality. What 
we didn’t see. which Tim did, was 
that if you have die very big shops you 
get the sales." 

Inevitably, as Smith is a group that 


of Pentos, to break the net book 
agreement. Pentos owns the Dillons 
bookshop chain. Smith is quietly 
gaining valuable experience of a free 
market in bools, through its Ameri- 
can operations, while steady oppos- 
ing Mr Maher in Britain. 

“Prices have had to go up in the 
States." reports Sir Simon, “so that 
the shops can then discount them. 
I’m quite dear that what the public 
realty wants in bookselling is avail- 
ability. Why I’m so opposed to the 
end of the NBA is I know ft win put 
prices up." 

He sees little change in the formula 
for the core business, of selling 
magazines, bodes, stationery and 
music, although he bemoans the 
current stagnation in popular music. 

Paul McCartney and foe founder 
members of the Rolling Stones are all 
within ten years of Sir Simon’s age — 
57. Elton John is 45. Even the top- 
selling Michael Jackson is a relatively 
whiskery 32. "There isn’t a new 
sound coming through." Sir Simon 
says, "bur time will evolve. Suddenly 
thereH be a burst of new sounds. So 
it’s going through a difficult stage, 
which is realty driven by technical 
change and fashion, and (here’s been 
a temporal blip in the prime buying 
age of 16 to 24. But I’m very 
confident of the music market in the 
long term, I really am.” 


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does best what it knows best, some of 
its more ambitious forays have bad to 
be undone. It has pulled out of retail 
travel shops within shops, and cable 
and satellite television. 

Do It AH its DIY chain, has been 
merged with Boots’s Payless to form a 
join tty owned third force. It is a 
defensive move that may not be 
enough to beat the recession. 

“I think that bringing the two 
companies together was strategically 
the right thing to do;" Sir Simon 
argues, “because it's given us the 
national coverage which neither com- 
pany had before. The market is 
obviously very depressed, because the 
housing market is depressed, and 
people spend money on their houses 
when they move. Because of that 
there is intense price cutting, particu- 
larly between B&Q and Texas. My 
experience of price wars is that 
eventually people see how futile they 
are. and stop.” 

The threat of a price war is also 
hanging over Smith’s traditional 
book business, thanks to foe cam- 
paign by Terry Maher, the chairman 


ean while, he has had 
to cope with a revolu- 
tion in another core 
business: newspaper 
wholesaling. Distribution has been 
the hidden lifeblood of Smith, dating 
bade to the stagecoach era and not to 
be confused with retail newsagents — 
an activity Smith withdrew from long 
ago. Until foe late 1 970s distribution 
accounted for more than half the 
group's turnover. But it was strongly 
unionised and dependent on the 
railways. 

When Rupert Murdoch took his 
newspapers, including The Tunes, to 
Wapping in 1 986 he had to establish 
a distribution system that was union- 
free. So he signed contracts with road 
hauliers, principally the Australian- 
owned TNT tend BRS Newsflow. 
part of NFC Other newspaper 
publishers followed suit, giving them 
a much stronger petition in negotia- 
tions with distributors like Smith. 

Consequently, the publishers in- 
creased their profit margins at the 
expense of wholesales, who also had 
to invest to compete. In Smith's case, 
foe bill was £24 million for sophisti- 
cated new information systems and a 
reshaped distribution network. In the 
long run, this should pay good 
dividends, for computerisation allows 
closer analysis of sales trends and 
retailer behaviour — valuable infor- 
mation that can be used and sold. "A 
hundred years of change has been 
telescoped into five years,” says Bob 
Simpson, managing director of W H 
Smith News. 

Sir Simon's next, and possibly last, 
major project is to decide whether 
Smith ought to expand into other 
parts of Europe. “We’re looking at it 
very carefully,” he confirms, “proba- 
bly as a joint venture for each 
country.” Shareholders will be hop- 
ing that this project works out more 
happily titan some of Smith's other 
attempts to stay ahead of the game. 


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dividend 

A CHANGE of strategy by 
Robert Fleming last autumn is 
about to pay unexpected divi- 
dends for City drinkers. Louise 
Maya the former top-earning 
member of Fleming’s UK and 
European convertibles and 
UK warrants team, which was 
dosed just more than a year 
ago, is making an unusual 
comeback. Mayo, who is re- 
puted to have earned dose to 
£1 50,000 a year at Flemings, 
is now based in Hong Kong 
where she has been setting up 
a similar desk for S t a ndar d 
Chartered. She flies in to Lon- 
don Later this week, howeve r, 
for the opening of Flowitts. a 
new drinking hide in Cannon 
Street, which she is l aunch ing 
with Tony Marshall formerly . 
erf Prudential-Bache, and Grar 
ham Flnwitt former manager 
of Balls Brothers wine bar in 
the Great Eastern Hotel Tt is 

not a pub and not a wine bar,” 

says Maya “IFs a rare combi- 
nation of both.” The new 
venue is dose to the fitimes 

and options exchange at Can- 
non Bridge md near James 
Capri’s new offices, an unex- 
pected benefit for Maya who 
worked for Capri before join- 
ing Fleming, and who is 
looking forward to a reunion 
with her former colleagues. 



copies of foe treaty at £3.50 
each. Both ardent anti-federal- 
ists r-. Nelson stood for the 
Anti-Federalist league hr the 
election. Pollard beBeves WH 
Smith, which has declined to 
take copies, “crarM sril 20,000 
easpy". Meanwhfla hefoas 
scored something of a coup in 
getting PC Plus, the computer 
magazine, to give away free 

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Trealysefls 

THE British ray not be as in- 
terested in Maastricht asthe 

French, but there is interest in 
the UK, according to David 
Pollard, a computer boffin, 
and Susan Nelson, a sculp- 
tress, who have independently 
published and sold' 3*500 


in its next issue. 

Low key budget 

THE "Danes might hays shak- 
en. financial markets wtfo their 
Maastricht vote, but theirbud- 
get . has passed unnoticed. 
Henning Dyn nose , • the-.fi- 
nflrify minister, made foe an- 
nual budget statement -on 
Monday under an embargo 
pr ohibiting mention of . it ‘to 
the. press until 'tbe foflawirig 
day- Whereas such a move 
would be unthinkablein Brit- 
ain. where the Chancellor's 
sfoi qfoeni is pounced only tire 
City, foe Damshbudget g o t by _ 
without a single breach of the; 
embargo anfoinoreowsr.bterB-- 


CITY DIARY 


fy a mention in the world’s 
press after the embargo was 
lifted. At hmchtime yesterday, 
even Kjdd Peterson, the eco- 
nomic counsellor at the Dan- 

- ish embassy in London, had 
. failed to catch sight of his gov- 
-eminent's statement Accord- 
ing to Peterson, the statement 
is always issued in August, 
when everyone is on holiday, 
andpolitidans do not debate it 
until foe autumn. "I expect IU 
probably be sent a copy by.the . 
end of the week,” Peterson 
says. 

Radio foresight 

.WAS Radio4 tipped off about 
this week’s changes at the 
TSB? After inviting main 

- banks to put forward panelists 
for its CSzfled to Account pro- 
gramme last Friday, the pro- 
gramme selected only one 
guest who was not a manag- 
ing director or equivalent — 
Peter Eflwood, then head of 
retailing' banking and insur- 
ance at TSB and now foe 
bank's chief executive. Keith 
Vass, editor, denies he had in- 
. side knowledge, but is dearly 
adroit al' picking his guests 
who las: week included Sir 
John. Quinton, of Barditys* 
just flftw Barclays’ terrible re- 
sults. Vass says: “Lloyds and 
National Wesminster categor- 
ically refused to put anyone 
forward for foie live audience 
discussion but .the TSB just 
said foe chief executive wasn’t 
available.-' Having seen 
JsEittWd, 48. in. action, Vassfs 

; first Impressions, he says, are 
that he is “young but impres- 
sive. He fielded the questions 
wri l and’ made a very-good 
pitch for his bank.” 

Carol Leonard 


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Backing Cadbury can spread high standards of corporate governance 


From Mr Maurice Hunt 
Sir, Robert Bruce's faint praise 
of foe CB1 dearly does not 
extend to the corporate sector 
in his piece on the Cadbury. 
Code (August 13). Unfortu- 
nately. his lack of goodwill (in 
the non-accounting sense) 
seems to be based on a 
number of misunder- 
standings. 

The CBI believes that disclo- 
sure of an annual compliance 
statement such as a Stock 
Exchange listing obligation 
would be an expensive aid to 
compliance. Boards accus- 
tomed to foe Yellow Book 
know that statements issued 
without meticulous care can 
seriously damage the health of 
a company and its sharehold- 
er. For that reason, chairmen 
would probably have their 
compliance statement checked 
by lawyers: and they in turn 
would want to know exactly 
what directors were signing 


up to: the Code of Besr Practice 
alone, or the Cadbury Com- 
mittee’s accompanying recom- 
mendations and explanatory 
memorandum as well? They 
do not ah say exactly the same 
thing; and before we knew it 
there would be calls for inter- 
pretative notes and authorita- 
tive rulings. Shareholders 
might think there were better 
ways for senior management 
and their advisers to spend 
their time. 

Governments cannot legis- 
late for good corporate gover- 
nance, but shareholders, 
especially institutional ones, 
can insist upon it if they choose 
to; and there is growing evi- 
dence that they now do, when 
they believe that changes in 
board structure or operation 
are needed. 

Pressure for compliance is 
more likely to come through 
this route than a formal state- 
ment in the annual report and 


Tenants should see the draft lease first 


From Mr Edward Beaumont 
Sir. May I add something to 
the fetters (August 13 and I9J 
about the terms of commercial 
leases and foe duration and 
extent of the liability of tenants 
and guarantors. 

It is open to prospective 
tenants to insist — before even 
viewing a property — on 
seeing foe draft lease, and/or 
on receiving an unqualified 
letter from foe landlord stal- 
ing thathe is wiQmg to grant a 
lease having certain basic fea^ 
tures (sutfo as a threeyear term 
with tenants" option to ex- 
tend), and also confirming 
that if negotiations for a lease 
take place, the landlord mil 
bear the cost of the fees 
charged by his own advisers. 

There may never be abetter 
time for tenants to start doing 
fok Most prospective tenants 
do not consult lawyers until 
the base terms have been 


fixed, though not necessarily 
understood. Being committed 
to pay the landlords’ lawyers 
costs “irrespective of whether 
the matter proceeds to comple- 
tion" is the negotiating equiva- 
lent of going into the ring with 
both hands tied behind one's 
back Vet tenants do it willing- 
ly. Moreover, it is convenient 
for the legal profession not to 
disturb the conventions under 
which landlords provide draft 
leases and tenants and their 
solicitors undertake to pay foe 
costs: in particular, these con- 
ventions save actual mental 
effort (die documents bring on 
foe landlords' lawyer^ word- 
processor) and provide an 
accuse to obtain monies on 
account and thus avoid all 
credit risk 
Yours faithfully, 

EDWARD BEAUMONT, 

43 Crofton Lane. 

Fareharo, Hampshire. 


accounts. Cadbury rightly sees 
his Code of Best Practice as a 
checklist for board and inves- 
tors, which has to be applied 
in a way sensitive to com- 
panies' individual circum- 
stances, rather than as a dose 
proxy for statute. 

To put it another way, the 
success of a board is more 
likely to be a matter of person- 
al chemistry than something 
designed through a mecha- 
nism such as a two-tier board. 
Independent directors may be 
a check and balance to a 
powerful individual or group 
of executives, but they ought to 
be much more besides, bring- 
ing a wider perspective ana 
range of experience to foe 
development of business 
strategy. 

While the two-tier board can 
work in other business cul- 
tures, that is no reason to 
suppose that it would enhance 
company profits or avoid cor- 


porate failures here. After all 
the Japanese, who have sus- 
tained their economic success 
for as long as the Germans 
and are skilful in borrowing 
and adapting ideas from else- 
where. have stuck to their 
version of the unitary board. 

Cadbury’s draft report has 
already been influential in 
causing boards to look again 
ax their composition and 
method of working. 

If ft is sensibly applied and 
backed by institutional share- 
holders. it wfl] spread the 
standards of corporate gover- 
nance practised by foe best 
companies. 

Yours sincerety. 

MAURICE HUNT. 

Deputy Director-General and 
Secretary. 

Confederation of British 
Industry. 

Centre Point 

1 03 New Oxford Street 

WC1. 


Shotgun shopping 

From Mr Bernard Keeffe 
Sir. Mr Milter rightly points 
out that British banks' high 
interest rates can hardly be 
said to increase consumer 
confidence (Business letters 
August 19). There is even 
stronger discouragement else- 
where. A spokesman for one of 
our largest retailers of elec- 
tronic goods in a broadcast 
this week appealed to foe 
government to reduce interest 
rales, which, he daimed. were 
discouraging customers from 
entering his shops. This chain 
at present charges 32.9 per 
cent on credit purchases. With 
inflation below 4 per cent, this 
represents a real charge of 
between 28 and 29 per cent 
This perhaps could be 
described as a shot-in-foot 
situation. 

Yours faithfully, 

BERNARD KEEFFE 
1 53 Honor Oak Road. 

SE23 


Getting vexed over vexillology and flying the wrong flag of Japan 


From Mr Peter Bartleet 

Sir. In the first column of 
Business Times (August 19) 
you have depicted what I can 
only assume you believe to be 
the national flag of Japan. 

In fact what you have shown 
is the naval ensign, sometimes 
referred to as tire “war 
ensign". 

This design was adopted on 
November 3, 1889. 

The national flag of Japan is 
a simple red disc on a white 

foe*Hino-Maiu and* was offi- 
cially adopted on August 5, 
1853, largely in response to 
the arrival of Commodore 
Matthew C Peny, of the 
United States Navy, in that 

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year. The red disc (Hino 
Maru) is, as the chrysanthe- 
mum. a mori or heraldic 
device widely recognised for 
centuries in Japan. 

The design of the sun with 
its rays, as you have shown, is, 
I believe known as Asahi — as 
adopted by Pen tax as part of 


their name! VeriUriogyxan be 
an absorbing subject and 
needs careful attention. 

Yours truly. 

PETER G. BARTLEET. 

56, Burfidd Road. 

Old Windsor. 

Berkshire. 


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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY 21 


The burden of the uniform business rate is too much for some owners, Chris Partridge reports 


P roperty owners, already suf- nV /> i 
fermg&ora the effects of the “^1/ I 
slump in lettings, have re- 
sorted to “constructive van- 
{fcljmr. gutting their empty office 
du iid mgs, to avoid having to pay the 
UJuf orm business rate. Now. to 
escape local authority charges that 
can reach up to £1 million per year, 
owners of otter empty offices are even 
threatening to wreck the facades of 
buildmgs in some prime central 
London sites. 

At least six blocks in the City of 
London have been constructively 
vandalised by their rate-payers, so 
that technically they are unfit for 
occupation and consequently not 
uable for raxes. So far. the dama*. 
has been limited to the interiors, by 
the removal of lights, kitchens, lavato- 
ries and any of the facilities that are 
legally necessary before office workers 
can use the premises. Extern aBy. the 
buildings have been property main- 
tained and the City has agreed that 
no rates can be charged on the 
buildings. 

Now several developers plan a 
similarly destructive coarse of action 
on their buildings in other London 
boroughs, notably Westminster. 

However, they are finding district 
valuers less willing to co-operate. 

Therefore, the owners are threaten- 
ing to destroy the exteriors as well, to 
make the case for zero rates 
unanswerable. 

“The next step is to take the 
windows out, which would seriously 
affect the appearance of streets," says 
a director of one of the property firms 
that has already gutted a City office 
building, saving more than £250,000 
a year. 

The rates bills faced by owners or 
tenants of empty premises can be very 
large. The business rate in the City 
averages £22 per sq ft, of which half is 
payable on an empty office or shop 
after it has been unoccupied for three 
months. “Property holders face six- 
figure or seven-figure sums aruiual- 
fy." says Michael Pattison, the chief 
executive of the Royal Institution of 
Chartered Surveyors, which is cam- 
paigning for die introduction of a 
rate for empty properties of 10 per 
cent 

If a building is subjected to 
constructive -vandalism, no rales are 
payable at afl. But the expense of 
bringing the building baric info 
commission if a tenant is found could 
be considerably greater. . 

Landlords ate) know that even - 
empty buikfings get the. benefit of 
police protection , street lighting and 





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other council services, and are pre- 
pared to contribute something. 

The last time there was an “empty" 
rate for commercial and industrial 
premises was in the 1960s, but it was 
abolished in the wake of file contro- 
versy over Centre Point, the 

New Oxford Street skyscrap- 
er which remairted empty for 
several years, as its owner, 

Harry Hyams, waited for a 
singletenant 

The recessions of the 1 990s 
in the manufacturing and 
distribution sectors have re- 
suited in reductions, of rates 
for empty factories and warehouses, 
especially after some factory owners 
went to fire extent of removing roofs 
from buildings to get zero rating 


KonV^na 


the liability," Mr Paoison says. 
Buikfings that have been subject to 
constructive vandalism in the C3ty 
include Armour House, near St 
Paul’s, owned by fire St Martin’s 
Property Corporation, which is sav- 


Hie problem will increase 
over the next year 
unless something is done’ 


mg an estima ted £800,000 a yean 
am Winchester House at London 
Wall, owned by Wales (City), saving 
about £280.000. So for, the “van- 
dals” have been property companies. 

erty that .cannoTbe sold or let, and wte"ch,WDUld normally have redeveT response to constructive vandalism, 
many owners haxeprotdems meeting ' op&^the Eufldirigs but have been ' In a written parliamentary answer 


“There are huge amounts of prop- 


forced to postpone plans until busi- 
ness conditions improve. However, 
there are stories in the City that a 
leading industrial company is about 
to “vandalise" one of its main office 
blocks in order to save £1 ~5 million a 

year in business rates. “There 

are any number of office 
buildings that were ripe for 
development but are now not 
viable, and there is no pros- 
pect of being able to let them 
for anything at all," says 
Michael Soames. a partner in 
estate agents Knight Frank & 
Rutley. “We see fire problem 
increasing over the next year unless 
something is done. It does seem 
slightly mad to - be encouraging 
vandalism of expensive assets.” 

Yet there has been very little official 


just before the Comments went into 
recess. Robin Squire, fire environ- 
ment minister, said: “We have no 
plans to change fire law governing 
the rating of empty property. Empty 
property benefits from local services 
and it is right that h should contrib- 
ute to the costs incurred by local 
authorities. 

“Property whether occupied or 
empty is rateable if h is capable of 
beneficial occupation. If owners 
judge it commercially advantageous 
to render property unusable, that is a 
matter for them." Mr Squire estimat- 
ed that fire lost rates from the 
vandalised properties in fire City 
came to about £3 million a year, 
compared to a total rate income from 
empty property in England of about 
£600 minion a year, an amount that 
will not be easily given up from local 
authority coffers. 


Venturing 
in Russia 


BOVlS Internationa] is to 
begin work on its first project 
in Russia. Christopher War- 
man writes . The company has 
signed a joint venture agree- 
ment with the Moscow State 

Philharmonic Orchestra and 
the International Non-Gov- 
emment Foundation-House 

for Children -Orphans to rede- 
velop three office buildings in 
central Moscow controlled by 
the orchestra. 

The reconstruction, provid- 
ing S 7.000 sq ft behind the 
existing facade, will also have 
scope for fire construction of 
luxury apartments and will be 
ready for occupation by the 
end of J 993. 

Half-full Bath 

FUTURE Publishing, the 
Bath company that produces 
20 national magazines, has 
leased all the 15.000 sq ft of 
offices on the upper floors of 
Seven Dials, ChanweH Heri- 
tage’s new office and shop- 
ping scheme next to the 
Theatre Royal. 

John MulhoDand, of the 
agent J.P. Sturge, said that it 
was probably the most signifi- 
cant office letting in Bath this 
year. The development is now 
over 50 per cent let, and 
negotiations are taking place 
on several of the shop units. 

Gateway to Kent 

THE architectural practice 
A&DG (Architecture & De- 
sign Group) has unveiled de- 
sign proposals for Ashford’s 
planned international railway 
station which aims to provide 
Kent with a gateway building. 


A&DG, the now largely inde- 
pendent pan of the British 
Railways Board, plans steel, 
glass and polished concrete 
buildings providing 64,000 sq 
ft of space covering both the 
international and local 
stations. 

A & DG’s previous work in- 
cludes the award-winning de- 
sign of Liverpool Street 
station. 

Bank on Thames 

KUMAGAl GUMI. the Japa- 
nese civil engineering contrac- 
tor. has let its entire 190,000 
sq ft development. Thames 
Exchange, north of South- 
wark Bridge in the City of 
London, to Midland Bank for 
the location of the Treasury 
operations of Midland Bank 
and Hongkong Bank, as well 
as the London office of stock- 
brokers James Cape! & Co. 

Theleomgis believed to the 
largest in the City. Jones Lang 
Wootton says. 

Prime property 

LOOKING forward to a re- 
covery in the market. Stan- 
hope Properties and the 
Worshipful Company of Salt- 
ers have signal an agreement 
for the redevelopment of Wal- 
ling House. Cannon Street, in 
the City of London (pictured 
below). 

Planning consent has been 
obtained for a new scheme 
providing 90.000 sq ft of 
offices with retail, designed by 
Arup Associates. 

The property stands in a 
prime position in the City, 
bounded by Bread Street and 
Wading Street, and the agents 
Jones Lang Woooon and 
Kni$ht Frank & Rutley. are 
seeking a pre-letting of the 
scheme, which offers fire op- 
portunity for the building to be 
tailored to individual needs. 



A new lease of life Watting House, Cannon Street 


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I nvestors who stayed away 
from the commercial 
property market last year 
because of the fall in values 
could be ready to make stone 
strategic purchases to take 
advantage to fire end of.:flre 
recession. 

Dr Angus McIntosh, fire 
head of research at the consul- 
tancy, Healey & Baker, says in 
the newly-published 1992 Eu- 
ropean Investment Report that 
the most sought after proper- 
ties are no longer fire land- 


The recession has stifled property 
investment on the Continent but as 
Christopher Wantnan reports, 
purchases now could pay dividends 


mark buildings popular in the 
1980s. These have proved 
vulnerable to toss to value 
during downturns. Proving 
more papular are the growth 
locations in markets that are 


percefwsd to have an increas- 
ingly important part to play in 
the European Community. . . 

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the main target for some time, 
its popularity in the short term 



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ever, that the downside of fire 
recession has been over- 
emphasised for those who 
invest on a medium to long- 
term basis. “The countries ibat 
have benefited have been Por- 
tugal and Spain and, to a 
lesser extent the UK and 
France, where there is a per- 
ception that bargains are to be 
obtained despite relatively low 
levels of occupational 
demand.” 

The report also explains 
bow countries will amend 
legislative practice to permit 
them to function fully within 
the EG Italy, Portugal and 
Spain should, over the next 
tew years, remove artificial 
barriers and thus increase 
theu investment appeal. 

There is already consider- 
able demand for retail invest- 
ments in these three markets 
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dards, are relatrvety immature 
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sophisticated real estate in- 
vestments". 

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


RUGBY LEAGUE 


French connection 
in Regal Trophy 
aims to boost game 


THE efforts of the Rugby 
Football League (RFL) to ex- 
tend the borders of the game 
are to include the introduction 
of French teams into domestic 
c ompetition, beginning with 
this season's Regal Trophy. 

Carcassonne, France’s lead- 
ing tide last season, and the 
dub which wins an eaxty- 
season competition will 
appear in the draw for the 
preliminary round in October. 
Both teams will play all their 
ties away from home. 

The French game is a poor 
relation of rugby union arid in 
urgent need of the stimulus 
that competition with British 
sides would provide. From the 
RFL's perspective, a stronger 
France would be beneficial not 
amply for the wider develop- 
ment of the game, but also in 
providing Great Britain with a 
harder edge to the two annual 
fixtures between the countries. 

Should the French dubs 
become just a more exotic 
form of cannon fodder, the 
experiment could be interpret- 


By Christopher Irvine 

ed as a gimmick, rather than a 
genuine attempt to broaden 
and strengthen the game in 
the northern hemisphere. If 
the French connection can 
furnish a real competitive ele- 
ment, then the inclusion of 
ten™ hum France in file Silk 
Cut Challenge Cup is a 
■possibility. 

However, the inability of the 
rugby league authorities to 
extend the horizons of the 
domestic league champion- 
ship as far as Scarborough — 
the latest casualties after only a 
year in existence — continues 
to defy the game's expansion- 
ist ambitions. 

Hull and Bradford North- 
ern are maintaining their 
interest in signing Dezyck 
Fox. the Great Britain scrum 
halt although Chris Caitiey. 
the Bradford chairman, insist- 
ed yesterday that the dub was 
not prepared to sdl Karl 
Fairbank. the international 
forward, to Leeds in order to 
finance fire purchase of Fox- 
from Feattierstone Rovers. 


Warrington’s Allan 
Bateman, file former Neath 
rugby union centre, is in 
hospital and wifi miss the first 
two weeks of die season after 
slipping discs in his bads, 
lifting his eight-month-old 
daughter’s bath water. 

Leigh are facing legal action 
over an alleged breach of 
contract brought by Kevin 
Ashcroft, their former coach, 
who was dismissed in June 
after leading file dub to pro- 
motion to the first division. 

"1 was promised a £3.000 
bonus but my only reward was 
the sack.” Ashcraft said. John 
Stringer, the Leigh general 
manager, said: "We axe safis-- 
fied Kevin was paid every- 
thing he was due." 

Leigh wifi stage the champ- 
ionship match against War- 
rington on Sunday at their 
Hilton Park ground. Roch- 
dale Hornets have completed 
the signing of Cavill Heugh. 
the Leeds forward, from Aus- 
tralia, who originally rejected 
file dub's terms. 


Johnson 
to miss 
meeting 

Michael Johnson, the Ameri- 
can sprinter, says the illness 
that affected him before file 
Olympic Games has left him 
unable to finish the European 
track season. 

Johnson, who had tentative- 
ly agreed to run at an interna- 
tional meeting in Koblenz, 
Germany, on Monday, has 
had to pull out 

Increased funds 

Tennis Prize-money for the 
women’s international circuit 
wifi increase by $8 minion to 
$3 3 m in 1993, when 67 tour- 
naments will be staged. The 
Pan-Pacific Open in Tokyo in 
February and the Virginia 
Slims of Philadelphia in Nov- 
ember are upgraded to tier 
one tournaments. 

High quality list 

Horae trials: Thirteen nations 
have entered the 1992 Blen- 
heim Audi international from 
September 3 to 6. Among 
them are New Zealand’s silver 
medal-winning team from 
Barcelona, and three of the 
Great Britain team that fin- 
ished sixth. 

EC sailors 

Yachting: The first pan-Euro- 
pean boat to entei the 
Whitbread Round the Wodd 
Race will compete next year, 
skippered by a Swede and 
sponsored fay a Dutch com- 
pany. The brat will sail under 
the flag of the European 
Community. 

Jahangir back. 

Squash rackets: Jahangir 
Khan, who has been wodd 
champ ion six rimes, will make 
his return to the mtematimml 
circuit in the Wodd Open in 
Johannesburg next month. 
He was forced out of the game 
in February by a spine injury. 

In the top 30 

Rifle shooting: Eleven of the 
Fairfield Great Britain rifle 
team were in the top 30 of the 
first day’s aggregate at the 
United States Palma individ- 
ual matches in Raton. New 
Mexico. 


BASKETBALL 


Tolworth will see 
more of Kingston 


By Nicholas Harung 


KINGSTON (or Gufldfoxd 
Kings, as they are now known} 
have suffered the embarrass- 
ment of asking the Tohrorth 
Leisure Centre to stage then- 
first Cadsberg League home 
games next season. 

Since the dub's move down 
the A3 to Guildford has beat 
delayed "to fate autum n" fay 
file finishing touches to the 
£29.5 minion Spectrum 
Sports Centre, the Cadsberg 
League champions wifi be 
farced to stay put on their old 
court for the time being. 

Their first home fixture, 
against Deity on September 
19, is certain to take place at 
Tolworth, and the same will 
probably be the case for the 
games against Sunderland 
(October 4), Worthing (Octo- 
ber 10), Leicester (October 1 7) 
and Cheshire (October 24). 

The home European Cup 
tie with Katev Talinn wifi, 
however, take place at Crystal 
Palace on September 17, and 
if the Kings progress to the 
second round they will face 
Limoges on October 1, also in 
the National Sports Centre. 

The Kings, who won all five 


domestic trophies last season, 
will be the only English dub in 
Europe next season as 
Thames Valley Tigers, the 
league and cup runners-up 
last season, declined to enter 
the Dip Winners’ Cup. For 
financial reasons, Derby. 
London Towers. Worthing 
and Leicester all refused invi- 
tations to enter the Korac Cup. 

Leicester will be the weaker 
for Kail Brown’s decision to 
join Kevin Cadle’s squad at 
Guildford. Trevor Gordon, 
another English a nd British 
international, has also re- 
joined his former coach after 
an unproductive season with 
BAC Damme in Belgium. 

The two new Americans at 
Kings will be Tyrone Shoul- 
ders, formerly with 
Birmingham, and Derek 
Thompkins, both of whom 
played in Austria last season. 
Russ Saunders. Colin Irish 
and Mike Griffiths, the de- 
parted trio, are all looking for 
new dubs. Joel Moore, the 
former Kingston player, has 
left Siuttgart-Ludwigsburg in 
Germany and joined London 
Towers. 


BOXING 


Eubank may meet Piper 


CHRIS Eubank has been 
made a substantial offer to 
defend his Worid Boxing Org- 
anisation super-middleweight 
title against Nicky Piper, of 
Cardiff, before Christmas. 

Piper's manager, Frank 
Warren, confirmed that he 
made a £225,000 offer to 
Eubanks manager, Barry 
Hearrcbfo was dismayed with 
Hearn’s response. 

“Two months ago I first 
made the offer to Hearn. He 
contacted me to say that the 
fight could not take place 
because Piper was not in the 
WBO’s ratings," Warren said. 

"In the August ratings Piper 
appears at No. 8. so 1 made 
the offer again. 

"I was raxed a reply telling 
me that I could not promote 
Eubank but I was asked how 


much I required for Piper to 

fight him. 

"I am willing to give 
Eubank £225,000 and unless 
his manag er can beat that, 
Chris should instruct Hearn to 
accept because a manager 
works for the fighter and is 
obligated to get the best deal” 
A spokesman for Hearn’s 
Mafchroom organisation con- 
firmed that the offer had been 
made "Eubank is concentrat- 
ing on his fight against Thorn- 
ton. When that is over, and he 
is looking for a new opponent. 
Piper, because he is now in the 
ratings, could be the challeng- 
er.” Eubank, aged 26. who 
has had eight world title bouts 
in 22 months, defends his tide 
in Glasgow next month 
the American. Tony 
n. 



King of the castle: O’Sullivan has had little time fora rest at Blackpool 

New kid on the black has 
the old hands sweating 

Phil Yates catches up 


F or precocity of talent 
Ronnie O’Sullivan is 
snooker's equivalent of 
Jennifer Capriati. But while 
the teenaged American tennis 
player enjoyed her moment in 
the sun by winning gold at the 
Olympic in Barcelona, 
O’Sullivan has been demon- 
strating his enormous mental 
stamina within file less salu- 
brious confines of fire 
Norbredc Castle Hotel, 
Blackpool 

While most 16-year-olds 
have spent the summer look- 
ing for their first niche in fire 
job market or nervously await- 
ing exam results, O’Sullivan 
has been single-handedly ex- 
ploding the myth that snooker 
proficiency is a sign of a 
misspent youth- 
Yesterday O'Sullivan en- 
joyed a rare break from the 
qualifying rounds of file forth- 
coming season’s ranking 
events in which, playing a 
match almost every day for 
nine weeks, he has made the 
most dynamic start to a 
professional career since Alex 
Higgins won. the world 
championship at 
his fixst attempt 
in 1972: 

Inside the 
impersonal 22- 
table arena in 

Blackpool, 

O’Sullivan, who 
at 15 became the youngest 
player to compile a maximum 
break in competition, has 
added two equally significant 
records to his ever-growing 
portfolio. During the pre- 
qualifying rounds of the 
Rothmans Grand Prix last 
month. O’Sullivan completed 
the fastest victory in world 
ranking events when he need- 
ed only 43mm 26sec to beat 
Jason Curtis, of Blackburn, 
5-0. 

That was only one victory in 
an unbroken run of 38 match 
wins which superseded Ste- 


with the teenager 
who has been setting 
a fierce pace in . 
snooker's pre-season 
qualifying marathon 


phen Hendiys 36 in 1990-1 
as the longest unbeaten 
sequence. 

ThrowinI7 century breaks 
and 22 5-0 victories, and the 
stir that O’Sullivan has (seat- 
ed within the game becomes 
understandable. Players with 
infinitely more experience 
than O’Sullivan are marvel- 
ling at how he has managed 
to sustain a high level of 
performance and concentra- 
tion over such a lengthy 
period. 

O’Sullivan’s greatest asset is 
an insatiable appetite for the 
game and for competition. 
How else, through three days 
with a severe sore throat and 


The bookmakers are quoting only 20-1 
against O’Sullivan capturing snooker’s 
world championship tide by 1997* 


two more when he was forced 
to wear a neck, brace after 
cricking his neck, could he 
maintain an overall record 
which reads: played 58. won 
57. 

"You’re bound to get your 
share of bad days for one 
reason or another," O'Sul- 
livan said. 

“It’s a long time to be stuck 
away from home but you’ve 
got to budde through. I’ve 
won five or six matches here 
on bad days by simply having 
the win and determinatio n to 
doit 


“I’ve got no idea about 
statistics or records, but I do 
know that what I’ve achieved 
is special it’s a great feeling 
because I’ve now got a defi- 
nite psychological advantage 
over my opponents. I didn’t 
expect to do quite as wefl." 

It is true that on occasions 
at Blackpool O'Sullivan has 
faced indifferent opposition, 
but his practice schedule, self- 
discipLme and behaviour, on 
and off file table, have been 
exemplary. In the six years 
since he was disdpfizted for 
throwinga lunch-table missile 
at a holiday camp snooker 
tournament, O’Suflivan has 
matured emotionally as weft 
as physkalty. 

O’Sullivan, from Chigwefl, 
has' signed a management 
contract with Barry Hearn, 
who is convinced that his 
dient win become 
The book- 
makers Ladbrokes, concur— 
they are quoting only 20-1 
against O’Suffivan capturing 
die game’s premier title by 
1997: . 

. “Iwamtobewaridchampi- 
• on and I think I 
will be,” 
O'Sullivan said. 
From any other 
player , four 
months short of 

his seventeenth 

birfinday, that 
would sound Eke pfe-iirthe- 
sky arrogance. However, he 
sard it with such deep-seated 
conviction that it is difficult to 
ignore. 

On his day away from 
competitive pressures, 
p’Stolivan. a naturally talent- 
ed golfer, toryed with the idea- 
of heading for the . links. 
Instead,hededdedtopraaise 
for his match today in the last 
128 of. the Classic Interna- 
tional Open. 

Such a single-minded atti- 
tudejs possessed only by 
potential 


YACHTING 



in the battle to 
sink Little’s chances 


BWtKY PlOCTOALL 


CHRIS Little and his B ound- 
er crew am the provisional 

winners of the Hartlepool 
Renaissance - Round Britain 
race. They battled their way 
back to Cowes shortly after 
midnight yesterday to secure 
the handicap lead over their 
dose rivals; Boh Vouloir III 
and The Youth Challenge, 
skippered by Matthew 
Humphries. 

However, Iitfie and his 
crew now have an anxious 
wait until 10am tomorrow to 
see whether Michael Taytor- 
Jones and his S&S 34 Deer- 
stalker can better their rime. 
The Deerstalker crew stole a 
surprising threehour lead 
over Bounderafler completing 
the third stage of this 1.860- 
mife dicumnavigation from 
Lerwick to HaitiepoaL At 
noon yesterday, she was 
roundmg; 4fee Norfolk coast; 
stifl 240 m3rs from the finish 
with her oew tiabbing their 
hands at the pro^ectofstrong 
winds again today. 

“We’re in the hands of the 
” Iitfie admitted yester- 
j. “If fiie weather keeps 
blowing % it has, they may 
beatu&T 

At care point' (hiring this, 
final stage, the winds were 
touching 50 knots, forcing the . 
Bounder crew to rake down, 
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to cover the last 17 notes. The 
mods woe blowing 4 5 knots 
across the deck and the brat 


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Whatever the final result, all 
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ROWING 


Mixed inheritance 
awaits new coach 

' By Mke Roseweu. rowing correspondent 


THE Amateur Rowing Asso- 
ciation hopes to announce the 
appointment of a chief coach 
by mid-September. Britain 
went into the Olyzzqric Games 


and applications for the post 
dosed the -week. — 

Brian Armstrong, the inter- 
national- rowing manager, 
who has just returned from the 
lightwright and junior worid 
arampfonships m Montreat 
spent some of his time in 
Canada talking to potential 
candidates; indudiiig leading 
figures from New Zealand. 
Canada and America All the 
European rowing federations 
were informed of the position, 
and certain individuals were 
targeted. 

The new coach will inherit a 
pool of oazsmeri of proven 
ability, although some of 


them are reaching the eve- 
ning of tireft careers if the next 
Olympics, in Atlanta, is the 
arm To counter this, the 
British junior system contin- 
ues tofimxst forward the Greg 
Searies of the worid. 

- - The advertisement-for-the 

coaching post required that 
the applicant should “possess 
good inter-pezsanal skills and 
be a good leader”, qualities 
which could be crurial despite 
file successes in Barcelona, 
after fire appeals and niggles 
which featured in the four- 
year bufid up to fiie Olympics. 

As to what happens to the 
squad coaches and officials. 
Armstrong said: “We are into 
a new ban game," although he 
admitted that Britain wifi still 
need someone between the 
chief coadx and the appeals 
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The flaws that result in disjointed television coverage 


By Peter Barnard 

THIS Is the time of year 
when I have great difficulty 
giving football serious atten- 
tion: perhaps they are i 
the same trouble at 
Traffbrd. However ropey the 
weather, August is not a 
nwnth in which we should be 
playing football at afl. it 
befog the cricket season. 
Something should be done, 
as they say, but nothing will 
The dying embers of inter- 
national cnefcet are, at least, 
an o ppo rtuni ty to say some- 
thing about the television 
coverage of the great game 
and I hope the BBC wfQ give 
some thought to one or two 
minor changes of approach. 
Not to the coverage as a 
whole, which is exccuent. but 
to fire late-night highlights 
packages, which many of us 



rdy upon to get a Savour of a 
game. 

There are two problems. 
One was graphically illustrat- 
ed in toe third of the Texaco 
, the one that 
the series. A pro- 
gramme that genuinely in- 
tended to gjve us B the 

would have concentrated al- 
most exclusively an En- 
gland’s huge innings, and, in 
paxtiatiar, the partnership 
between Graeme Hick and 
Neil Fairbrother. This was 
swash at its most bockfing. 

Unfortunately, these pro- 
; have become set in 
ways. I did not put a 
watch to it, but my impres- 
sion was that the two sides 


got something dose to equal 
time. There was never a hope 
of Pakistan winning ami, 
although England bowlers 
knocking over stamps is a 
sight rare enough to warrant 
some attention, surely this 
was a golden opportunity to 
give over most of the 50 

minutes tn England ** hatting 
display, a classic of tire one- 
day game. 

Sadly, the attempt to be 
balanced produced disjoint- 
ed coverage The suspicion is 
that the television producers 
think s t ump s befog blasted 
out of fiie ground make for 
better viewing than good 
stroke play, but I would 
applaud fire editors if they 
went for broke (ami risked 
fire wrath of opposition sup- 
porters, of whatever side) by 
giving us a thorough look at 
what, in this case, was a 


world record-breaking 
timings. 

That leads me to the sec- 
ond problem of the hijgb- 
Iigbts programmes, which is 
that they are undercap- 
tioned.Too often one is left to 
guess at the identity of bats- 
man and bowler, which is not 
as helpful as it could be. X can 
see that given the sparse 
commentary favoured by 
Richie Benimd and Co (and 
me), there is a difficulty hero, 
but f have the impression 
that captions (Waqar to 
Hick) are used less now than 
used to be the case. Can. we 
have more of them please? 

A third point that could use 
some attention is fiie ques- 
tion of fire summarises. 
Geoffrey Boycott comes over 
well and Ray filfogworth 
avoids repeating what the 
main commutator has said 


more often than hot (though 
not often enough), bat I did 
not think Asif Iqbal ad d ed 
mUCfa to tire aim of human 

knowledge in the Test series 
and one-day mternationals. 


Asif is a cjbcuunnc man who 
knows, the- gfone inside oat; 
m fire commentary box he 
needs a tittle pro-match 
coftdnng. 

L. suppose there is no 
avoiding fire subject of foot- 
ball Match of the Day is 

back and benefitingfipm the 
presence of Alan Hansen and 
Gary Lineker, not to mention 
me bet mat there seem to be 
pfenty of goals about. 

I do wonder how 


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wuta has been using shots 
from throughout the pro- 
gramme’s history, can con- 
tinue. There was a good 
excuse onSararday night; the 
progra mme celebrating the 

azmxvmsazy of its first tzans- 

mission, but I would have 
timnght fire device had a 
Mai shelf fife; given 
that even brief glimpses of 


by now. But 1 dans say there 
are plenty of people with time 
“““ones who enjoy some 
spot-the-goal fan. 

Tbe other highlight of the 
weekend, for a sad reason. 

the coverage from 
Gateombe Park on Sunday. 
Jgynond BrootohWatd bad 
the previous day and 
what & loss he is to show 
“ n television; 
Brooks-Waid give spice and 

to a sport in 
I mn trot normally 
But Mrefr- 
fitted the breach 
™ndfiy- One of the trib- 
,to BroofcfrWard had 
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


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FOR a man who claims there 
is no great seem to winning 
nandjcajK, Luca Cumani has 
had at least his fair share of 
success. He can add to that 
with Retender in the. York- 
shire Television Handicap at 
Redcar this afternoon. He is 
my nap. 

Retender, unraced as a two- 
year-old, put up a good perfor- 
mance when less than eight 
lengths behind King Olaf and 
Hamas on his debut at New- 
market in ApriL 

However, he did not 
progress in the same way as 
those two. and it has been a 
case of patience for Cumani. 
which was finally rewarded 
when Retender came good in 
a daimer at Yarmouth two 
weeks ago. 

Retender took the lead three 
furlongs from home to beat 
previous winner F dge Of 
Darkness by three-and-a-hal/ 
lengths. 

His main rival today could 
be First Bid but he has gn™* 


up 81b since winning at Bever- 
ley earlier this month and may 
have reached his Brail. 
Roender is burdened with 
joint top weight but stiH looks 
too good for these. 

Cumani can make it a 
double with Ollvadi in the 
Norton Food Supplies Lid 
Maiden Auction Stakes. 
Olivadi made a promising 

debut at York last rnnmh, only 
weakening in the dosing 
stages when sbah. beaten sev- 
en-ar.d-a-quarter lengths, be- 
hind Urry Uny Urry. 

•. Mary Revekycan also land 
a double with Amazing Feat 
and Groose^V-Heather. Ama- 
zing Feat needed a stewards* 
enquiry to record the firs 
victory of his career but looks 
capable of taking the Tettey 
Bitter Handicap. 

Having shown some poten- 
tial in his juvenile season, 
notably when a good fifth at 


Haydock in September, he 
was sent off favourite fat his 
seasonal debut af Cafleridc 
«ai&r.this month. 

However, he finished three- 
quarters of a length second, 
having been barfly bumped in 
the final furkmg by Black Boy. 
The latter was first past die 
post bat was subsequently 
disqualified for Lansing inter- 
fereity. 

Now Mrs Revdey. who has 
proved adept at pladng hon- 
es. has deeded to try this son 
. of Petorius in handicap com- 
pany. As usual this leaves the 
hand icapper with little form to 
work an and he may have 
erred on the ade of ierriency 
against what look to be some 
weU-exposed rivals. 

Grouse- N-Hcather seeks 
her fifth victory in .die 
Runswick Bay Claiming 
Stakes and. judged on her 
latest performance at Ponte- 
fract three weeks ago. she is 
still on the upgrade. 

On recent form AIGmae- 


Noaus does not look an 
obvious choice for the 
Newfaaven Selling Handicap 
ai Brighton but he may still be 
the pick of this fidd. 

Affimac Nomis is raring off 
a mark only 41b higher than 
when he over today’s co ur se 
and distance in May. That, 
coupled with a return i o 
sellin g company, could be 
enough- to see him regain 
winning ways. 

Saovr Blizzard looked to 
have more than a little in hand 
when winning at Folkestone 
last time out and can fellow up 
in the Rottmgdean Handicap. 
Having made most of the 
running, he gnirfwwd dear 
with a ftrriong to navel to beat 
ThimbaHna by five lengths. 

Susanna** Secret, who had 
Iinie answer to the challenge of 
the weD-badced Indian Slave 
at Catterick last month, looks 
on the righr mark to gain bis 
first success of the season in 
the George Robey Challenge 
Trophy. 


Powerful 

Million 

challenge 


A VINTAGE European con- 
tingent wfllfly to C hic a go on 
Monday for the Arlington 
Miffioo in an attempt to add 
to the successes of Totoraeo in 
1983. Teleprompter in 1985 
and MiB Native in 1988 
(Richard Evans writes). 

Second Set who would be 
suited by the forecast fast 
ground, will be joined for the 
big race on Sunday week fay 
Exit To Nowhere. Dear Doc- 
tor. Star Of Cozzrne and 
Young Baster. 

Other nenners include Riv- 
er ^ Verdon, Hong Kong’s best 
horse. Golden Pheasant win- 
ner of the 1991 Japan Cup, 
Tight Spot who won the 
Million last year. 

Paid Kdkway is hoping 
that John Rose, yesterday's 
easy Brighton winner, can 
join the Arlington challenge. 

‘Unfortunately, we are only 
second restiv e at the mo- 
ment” said Kelleway. who 
saddled Madam Gay to finish 
third to John Henry in the 
inaugural running in 1981. 


Cole critical of Eddeiy’s 
Gimcrack riding tactics 


By Richard Evans, racing correspondent 


PAUL Coie spoke out yester- 
day aboui the riding tactics of 
Pat Eddery which cost the 
champion jockey a five-dav 
ban at York las: week. 

On the eve of Eddery’s 
appeal before the Jockey Chib, 
the champion trainer said: 
"Raring would be in chaos 
and someone would be bun if 
people are a Bowed to push 
through horses like Pat did in 
die Gimoack Stakes.** 

Eddery, who rode Silver 
Wizard, was suspended for 
careless riding when he at- 
tempted to force his way 
between Green's Bid and the 
eventual winner. Splendent 
both trained by Cote. Silver 
Wizard finished second but 
was subsequently demoted to 
third. 

“Pal is the champion jockey 
and my runners were drawn 
one arid two at York. If he 
can’t find another way of 
passing them, he should hang 
up his boots, or let his brother 
Paul ride. 

“He broke the rules of 


racing. We were drawn one 
and two. Why should Richard 
(Quinn, rider of Green's Bid} 
let him through. He look the 
back-end of my horse away. 
You can't do thai in races. 

"York is wide enough. 
There is plenty of room. It is 
not as though it was Bath. 
Everybody has to do their best 
but there was no gap to go 
through." 

Cede said he was confident 



Cede confident 


the Jockey Club would today 
uphold the decision of the 
York stewards. “I don’t think 
Pat has got a hope in helL“ 

If Eddery's appeal is turned 
down, his already remote 
chances of catching Michael 
Roberts in the jockeys’ champ- 
ionship wiD have disappeared. 

Roberts currently leads by 
22 (157-135) and is making a 
steady recovery from an injury 
sustained in a gallops foil a 
fortnight ago. 

After taking a day off on 
Monday, Roberts returned for 
one ride ai Brighton yesterday 
— Blue Marine, a beaten 
odds-on shot. The South Afri- 
can has restricted himself to 
two rides at Brighton today. 

“A knotted muscle under a 
shoulder Wade is stiH niggling, 
but I’m improving every day,” 
Roberts said. 

Luca Cumani and Frankie 
Dettori were the combination 
to follow at the Sussex course 
yesterday, landing a 25-1 
double with Field Of Honour 
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04 RQMAUI0 19 Ucitata M Btadtad 94 

0 SWLY SUPERB 7 (C SMscz) to W Ezatof 9-0. 


J Canto - 
WlWa 71 
KFtaon 93 
K Daisy 71 


GPaMoP) - 

— JFortae 99 


000 STBCSWOMStSItUsCWtoy) WCaWOO. 


04 UNE<WER14(tMctaBpttsatotoTantatos94. 

00 WHO GtPISSSIM 14 (6 Drsos) C TUdtr 94 

60 mGHWU21pBMi)ClMta»0. 


02 HtaA19«taKCtoZM)tts6tatoey59 


403B fWT VALLY 35 0*1 II Uomad B toar 5S_ 
0 H0KWDMTHE»aL30(BBto6MBa64_ 



BETTIft 74 Otatf. 51 PtOm Omm, 6-1 Jtaaaa. TD-I EBaa. Itae fflw, 14-1 Hooe Fran D* HM Keep 
tar ttta 20-1 ton. 

1991: CUMBRAN CKAUQSE 94 M Bttb (5-4 In) M H EMta 19 an 


FORM FOCUS 


KEEP YOUB 0ISTAHCE a 9b to 10 to Jofl Toe 


On toa tadatoDM pt good). CUVADI 7«l 

20 to Itoy Uny Ihy to a raktoD axtoM to 


Tort 


4 3M to M to Wo SI 


anq. n a ntota to ^^ ^DM^ RMtA Uro 


5KI 4ttt to IS to 

totatmtai (71. grog, us WVER Z 4di to 

11 to Maia ia a ttakn aoeflon to Bowky pi 


,«aWU)E30>l«SXn(B9i 

betas ofl} 10) Ida. ERZU 51 2nd d B to 

averted* to a atodan tatoton. hm pf . good to 

‘ , Mb JALCAWT0 f® baw M) a bnd 3aL 

' VRLIV « » to 14 to Haatar to* to a 
a atobon to Doocasta (8. good). HOtE 
RIM DC HU. 5Kt Sd to 19 to s&Dacer to 
a nakfen acta to UngMd (71 good). 

ONADI 


5.00 


JOSHUA 1EHEY MAIDEN STAXES (£2£11:1m 20 (7 runners) 


« 

0) 

& 


M E9MPUS 18(R HOAbsG An 


BRue HONDA ffta tanatad Hotai Ud c ftttta 344 
5 . JAIB. 0ANCB11Z (MMoa AI IHbmo) M tata 344 
. «-2 IMBUE 13 0F)Qtal*IMtaim4H Cota 944 
30323 RSUSTIBiS 1ft (KAbdtotoJJGoodOB 3-94 — 

5- a TARAWA 301 (SntabMtoamd)G«Aigg 344 



50 HBHJVORUFtASirB(BF) (AWtofcl)fiHte344.^-. 

BETTWG: 44 iMp*. 54 M Dn. 7-1 Macttg, 10-1 HtotoM tawasr, 16-1 B TmmSi 20-1 otoos. 
19B1rCAMARAT 344 D Hotand(11-4| fi IM B oa . . 


FORM FOCUS 


EDEREPUS 121 3rd to 4 to lautoisna n a 

iimnaftoPwa.JAMEMHCEHn 


% to 7 

l&DobekkintaotoRiBesBBiriinlfldSyiL 

good). UUQUE Ml tal to 4 to Rontttto in a 
iwdw to Bttrtsr fla 2). goal}. REFLfCTMS 
tal 3rd to 8 totandodi k i mtan IImbH 


(1<n a. good la tom). B.TWWCA BUI 5to to 10 

to Jasntoi to i madan to TtanonBi flm. good k 

fito). HBU9D fMUSi a BB to ID a 

taxodia to a godoatai oca to Motav (1m a 

sod to me. 






2JD (71 2 14yd) 1 , JOFW ROK py 1 
*», ft-Q. 2, Bluo Martas (M BO&rW 

hw):3, ““ 


■ -i’J 


«19 - ‘\ f. 


-1 > = 


' 


Brighton 

Going: good to Rrm 

Kate- 

..j; 8-13 

j To Dream (J Fteid, 14-n. 3 

ran 2«l SOL P KetawtoJ**™* 1 *- 
T«e ia DF: £1 ia CSF: 2168 

ssssaaeisasgi 

(S N, 12 Pteasure Ahead 14 HfcOf Hgf. 
16&iUStnri. aoBcotas. 25 Mug*** 
gs-i i iiifain n i idW.. 33 bena Lee*. Rape 
tek IT^rWilH. a» 1»- O 
CtoteeOtwe to Wan£* Lp» 

Earn. ££60, El 4ft Ell&DF: 

CSF: £437.01. TiteMtSa267 U Not*) 

aooja; 



I.PBDpfHONOlJAa. 

S5®8 


-.MeefeflB 


mmsratemi 


mart*. Tote: 


mart* Tote £240, ei.50. 

DP: CISftO. CSP e&m.incset £181 a. 


' Sftatoi 

tanaled Master nan.-16ran SL; KMfJL 
D Artutmot a Compton. Tcte C17i0, 

Ms 


£4.00, B4JW. £4 4a'DP-_ES4080. CSF: 
£J®61: Trtaast: £2,180 43 

SeMSmSS 

’S- HTJWrnwn 
.Jonas to Neannatel Trteu £120: £1.10, 
DF: £fi4a CSF: £7 JO. 
4.30(5f2l3ytl)1. JAUAAF fl- Dettoft > ijj - 

taSraTa a a l cwnta - m 
M ta' WJUaJH* q.m 

E130. DF: £16.10. CSF: £3053. 


•11.ALS0 

£1Jft E2.40, £270. DF: £17-50 CSF. 
' £54052. THcStt 04780... t .. 

PtacspoC E1^44,W - 


Pontefract 

Gotog:.goeKJtoBrni 

waftfsanwses 


Ktojcaa,20CafiTo1hoBai4ih),50J«a 

mScTYous Or Uno (600- 13 ra 


iran.ua. 

2)61 A hd, 1L R Datoi at Nawsnt Tote 

t&SCK SZm, ES-ia £230. DF: E3&S0. 
CSR £38.04. Tricast £641.58. 


3.16 (im 2T tafl 1 . KAGRAM QUSi (K 

Dartey, #zt 2. May Goddess (K Runer. 

6-5 tatfl: 3, Dual Lad (D HoBand 8-1) 
ALSO BAN: 9-2 Speedy. Sfouc (406/ 12 
WtoSMtolM Auction, 20 PmcsttOt 
Or&nae, S Ivan Die Tenfcte. BoWta 


Bott'EfioU Rweoes, KM Style 
WataniSTe ' 


Oil (600. 66 Doughman, 100 
Emma Victoria. HgefiBa Jastto. 14 ran. 

NK JdN Jack. 113H. 1 »L 9. D. Mrs G 

Rauata to Sadbun. Tote: E500; £130. 

£160. El 30. DF: £A£0. CSF: £9.85. 

lASresr bought to far 6,600gne 


, McKao*n.2fr-1). ALSO RAN: 31» 

Marius. »2 Muaad Ana (4|hl. 6 Udafle 

Bash, Frtwtoua fik mi «S**A- 

Pope. IV Mrs Dwm i. 12 Rad Cant Oh). 
16 Doc Spot. 16 Comteo's Loaond. 26 
McMcan Brave. 33 Moontom Dancer. 

14 ran. HL »tlW. i«.*M,MraG 

flageiey at Safltxn. Tote £2590: £530. 
sS^ESkl DF: &12SJXL CSF: E159B6 
TriCaSC P9 Q3 7JB. 


aWMflSkfliW! 

H0 ^ “ei^d^: 9. 


£220. £130. 
£258 


4^45 (2m 11 216yd) 1, FARSI (W Ryan, fi- 
ll lav; Mandarin's nap), 2, Ftaouch 
[PaU Eddery, 2-re 3. Haflham (R 
Coctiiape, iM). ALSO RAN: 16 Access 
ad m. 

51 


pg) csF-tta 
5.l5(1mWd)1.TAWTTANpHoaand,B- 
1), aiheDwnJyDon (K Ftoton. t4-1); 3. 
Btoabanoo (K Dariw. 11-2 ta): 4. 
Alwtori (S D vwoams, 25-1 ). ALSO RAN 
Murstl, 11 motor Me Go. 12 Greal 


Lord. M«ay Btoert, Any Dream Wotod 


Da 12 Essteeftw. H Goto Bed, 16 itev 

Maaton, 16 CJedeschamps (Bh). 20 


Ftoly wafiaca. Vererc Four*. Moo 
Rusart. 26 Casting Shadows, Apoflp 
fWTWi Baccara (500. 33 Scrota 
Ruby. 33Mw*ny a Brew. Dandy Datora 
22 cad 81 hd 2J5L SHU, nk. Mr J 

Ramadan to Think Tote: £9.80; £250. 

£230. £190. £1150. DF: £117.40. CSF: 

£11622 Tncaat E629 B7. Ntw a tow- 

anfe* eraary. result stood 
5.46 (69 1. BLUE GWTJK. fttaon, 13^; 


Rflhiar Scuadfwi 
KenyWB(JFm 
4 fevbsftoa, 13-21 


Enough ^P Burtfl, T4t-t), 


D Wtaama, 6-T): 4, 
HAH 


toWfl, 33-1), ALSO i 


tout 

16 bato 


_ 13^ Morpta. 6 GraraiyMc, 
r 1 14TKMttfflVfren.KMir(Wi) 1 
' Fpy Edan, Joham Thyme 


Doris to Da*xffli- TotB: E720; Cl JO . 
£5.90, £160, BMO DF: £7430 CSF: 
20150. TriC*St CS40.7B. 


Ftacspoc ESS.70 



MANDARIN 

2.15 Sfica. 

2.45 Stitchoombe. 

3.15 ABbnac Nomis. 

3.45 Susanna’s Secret 

4.15 Brecon Beacons. 

4.45 Snow BSzzard. 


THUNDtRfcH 

2.15 Nest 

Z45 Dadassified. 

3.15 Anaboccoia 

3.45 Feynaz. 

4.15 Brecon Beacons. 

4.45 Rocquaine Bay. 


RICHARD EVANS: 3.15 ANATROCCOLO (hap}. 3.45 Old Comrades. 
Our NewmarfraC Correspondent 2^45 DECLASSIFIED (nap). 

4.15 Amacunagh. 

Private Hantficapper’s top ratine: 4.15 ANNACURRAGH (nap). 


GOftiG: GOOD TO FIRM 


DRAW: 6F-1M. LOW NUMBERS BEST 


SIS 


2.15 SEAfiULLS MMDBI GUARAHTHD SWSVIMES 

(£2.070: Sf 213yd) (6 nmero) 

(5) M ABBEY GRffl( 25 ICWJCW 4-94. 


■ Mbs - 


m DB460U BRCHTSEA7 (B) ®Latnt6)*Wffiacx<-34 

(2) 006326 IIBOWC 14(6) (A Kao) A Does 644 

(5) 034663 GBLAW 16 (A 8 total 3-6-9 

13) 06050 MEStTT tad Ctaamn) Lad ttaargden 2*9 

(4) 404422 SICA 3 (Sato Motaoml) J Gccdei 3-8-9 


jtotasB 71 

LtaDto S 

Uflotato 91 

._ SCutei 98 


BETlIte 49 Sia. 3-1 N* 13-2 Britan, 6-1 Tnomg 20-1 Mtty &en Baft So. 

1991 : MT RUBY RM6 44-13 1 MtaOE (9C) O Uing 7 an 


2.45 


SMIDLESCOME WUDEN STAKES 
(2-Y-0: £2,616: 6f 209yd) (10 nmnas) 


W 

m 

0 

(1) 

<91 

<a 

(4) 

P> 

15) 

IE) 


S DECLASS6B) 19 IE£m| LC*a*M)_ 

0 GB6fflUSB8J11(CPconck)JStetoBW)- 
SEASmW(SMnS(toR»Q)UBtesbBd»)- 
S7TTCHC0MBE (R Snjsaj) P Obnk-Hyzn B-0_ 
CAMMRBA d Tata P tatag 64. 


. LDOBri 99 
. BROOM - 
NCaSria - 

- VI 

Jl 


44 LEAVE A BSS 29 P Mrite) IBtafcaM Altam « 

M UD0HA21 (I Mtofl J Ebriqi 8-9 SCWSeB 99 

000 MALTHA 29 CCortKGoess-Sw»i}UHezx-ers 8-9 SCartai 67 

a ROTALFlBcai (HDBirBitawli)MBLRggaM LPIggoC S 

■ S VUAVMASSIEtSBOaiUASDDBM TOta 94 


BETnteM0lribBM.11-49limcai**.7-2RaalFte.IMreMma-l!**AKss,iB-UiaM«.14- 
1 Sea Sta, 20-1 ton 

1901: JAHZMH0 M B Psnan (3-1 to) R Hbsmo 9 on 


3.15 


NEWHAYBi SHJJMG HANDICAP (£2.679: 7! 214yd) (17 ninners) 


6) 2040 GBIME UW 7 (Mi 0 Ebae] A teds 4-1 W 

(15) 050021 PREOOOSAR 15 (DIFAHKKbwM Man 4-9-13 

(ID) 4260-02 SEASBEMHSIia.15B(C«aCH«W1 

(13) 600-000 SUDLEY SPARKLE 12 R (D Gatatart D Gawloh 4-9-7 

(14 006800 IOM0RE DAMS 15 0) (Ate PWtataQJ feta 4-9-T — 

(E) 241400 BREAKDAKSl 12 (F) U JWMI|) W Star 3-W 

(Bj 004400 CWIA9CV8(DR(CABHi)CAfia4-9-2L 

(17) 040443 SWOM BJJ5 IS (0 ItoOQJ 0 LWQ 3-9-2 


— LFIBOOB 8S 

— BfbUK 94 
_ WCHa 07 
JCtatn » 

_ J wans 92 
RPotam p) S 
G Footer (7) 58 
A Tudor 95 


(IE) 050250 M0VMB FORCE 16 (FA (teta Sbind ft Co Cri) E left 54-1 Mtetoipi 91 

13) 0060-04 BOUOBI ROWE 21 (R (kfltes) J Ftali-Htjes 54-1 — Ttota 91 

(2) 000042 ANATHOCCOU 0 Ms S On) R Bences 5-9-1 LDtari 9 

050402 BROAD APPEAL 15 nUAntOR Sow 40-13 G0MM4 94 


12 03 

IS (4) 04600 BAIHSHBBA EVBUEJff 12 (R Sol) K 4-8-13 — 8 Citato - 

14 (7) MOOOO TWO BUDS 5(B) (B Thoras} C Kipn 38-12 TllSm 51 

15 II) 631000 ALLMAC NOWS 16 (CtU) (U; Ktaestii I Csspbril 3-S-12 _ SlUwy(7) 91 

16 (9) 606560 0mm NDEIMTY 15 (D) |R Csvd) N &&£an 3ft-:* JTte(7)8B 

17 HD 000400 G0LDBI PROPOSAL 6 (Qcm flacog) II BoCn 3-ft-ll Altera 89 


6ETTN6: 7-2 Sota Unto 4-1 Pvoos As. n-2 Ai wtooc mlo. Bail Ataed 7-5 Sam Efts. 8-1 
Btetonai. Mofep F«a, (D-i Can 9jr. AKeoe Umts, 12-1 LaanOsccr. otes. 

1991: WETS FOLLY 5-9-1 T ten (15-1) S Dew 17 or 


GUIDE TO OUR RACECARD 


Its 413 00432 GOOD I9E5 74 (CO^CLS) Itfr. ' tetx, E Hi: 5 1M .. 9 Wes! (4) 8fl 


tacaeato Bunta. Ota « bodes. Sa-bjar 
tam ff— tall P— puM a- U — instotoJ 
nto. B— katol do* s — snaertop R — 
UkLU. 0 — Bcatotaft Hrne’e tame Oaf) 
ao tod mag J e i«tos. F d fat IB — 
uitoav— vets H — boat E-Ewsft*4 
C — mtnetener 0 — dsance woner CD — 


oust and tang Mm. Sr— beam 
tswame n toes act; &r»3 on mmd an* Ics 
■oo (F — fier. gaol to far. tail G — goto 
5 — aK. good c sdLtewyl OraobibBdBt- 
7r*no. ApatoMitn Rderpfc&tarikmnce 
The Time Pavse Kmtoappa'i n&ng 


3.45 6EDR6E H0BEY CHALLENGE TROPHY 

(Handicap. £3.288: 61 209yd) (18 runners) 


1 (13 44105 PRMCE OF DAMOESS 19 iF) (Pki 3ae Ssotel U Pies* 3-9-10 — G OsSUd 95 


(14) 004326 ROCK BAM) 7 M Urrarj L Coras 3-9-8 L Dettori 69 

(13 305300 CAR0M51 12 (CJLF£A U PC) U Uta 5-94 UtMflan 9 

(15) 356245 CtNSIDH LAS 9 (B) (K Hignaj 6 IMS 3-9-4 BRobsb 90 

(7) 304042 QANCSS 9EAU 21 HXG) II Utou) Us L PiflOBO 3-9-4 LPfapB 93 

(11) 534021 ABnrnJKETHAT 12 (BXdF.dS) (0 Bams) 7 Itotaon 59-2 — GCtofcr 96 

(13) 063104 0U) COMRADES 22 (CAF.G) IJ Bato) L ComeO 094 TRogers 95 

ft 033155 IAKBMBSE 15 Wfl (Stott UotoTOfl) J GaaJtn 3-9-2 SCoflan 91 

(3 003660 AfiTBBX 15 (VAR (C Hto) J taflty 4-9-2 JMfem 98 

14) 024329 CHAAE) KNAVE 49 f3DfJH (Ms II Gtsoni 0 Lwg 7-94) TWtaM 95 

It) 040361 Q1EV CHARm 14 fifJSt (Mss S ftMB] C Janos 3-3-12. OdaGBsoo 97 


12 (16) 024554 RSIDRE22 0£aS)CtaLFlltaWRtaniqr9O4 


92 


(5) OOOS55 FXVNAZ 34 (B,CDfl [N ttwttoor) W Iter 6-8-9 TQdon 92 

(5) 050502 SUSAieWS SECRET te »J)fl JMa M Kta) W Caner OM H G wB m g) 94 
(10) 000263 SURE SKH WRMAH 9 (H 0 K Ciwneaire) J Suttfite Oft-4. DHnkonP) 98 

(B) 443650 AUMW14(ro;A(nrtiaiRKiaa)aiaiRag74? Altera 68 

(3 040404 1DmAMCW7{rStodtai)VrWtonc30-l MAntons 05 


18 (l£) 600020 JUVB(ARA6(CJ) (CHB) C HBOOO. 


WCssoo 97 


BET1M& u-2 Cttrmer. 7-1 Atfnfeitota. States Seva. B-1 (ft) Cantor,, Pua 01 Dateess. 
Jut* 10-1 Lj Kmese. Chawd Koue. Atom. 12-1 Fipa Agent Rn* Bad 14-1 Sot Stool Nodi* 
16-1 ton 

1901: CHARllB) KNAVE 6-8-5 TWCtoas (13-2) Dialog 10 OD 


4.1 5 LANCING MAIDEN GUARANTEED SWEEPSTAKES 

(£2J)70: 1m If 20^d) (7 runners) 

JAQS0K SQUARE (S6aMd)W6U Timer 4-9-7 


1 Spate - 

0350 PEARL RANSOM 36 (Capt F Tynta-Qalcj W Utarrap 5-9-2 JltatoB 71 

05-050 BU9IAN 48 OMltaKMtlw Hern 30-13 W Cares 75 

3-336 SW B 1 CWJBE 12 (A lee) A Lea 30-13 J Dotes 65 


2 ANNACURRAGH 20 (HMcCtanw) A Serari 300 M Roberts 

220- BRECON BEACONS 356 (KttxMb) A Ctettoa 300- — PtiEdfey 90 

0 TT»inrGBIl5l(Sif6ehmoD)litottetteto300 DMGtosai - 

BETTBte 4-7 U nwn ift 2-1 Bncsa Bsscac. 6-1 ftnwn. i6-i tal tana 3J-1 J taat Stoat 
Sunaa Cnte. TStvj Gem 

1801: RH) S0WD 30^13 H CacbnM 110-11 te) G tanod 4 * 


4.45 


RamNGDEANHAND&AP (£2.553: 1m 3f 196yd) (6 runners) 

(6) 020016 MOON SJto 13 (BFflOteW Hen) W Hm 30-10 WCaeon 95 

340-101 3MW 8UZZW 57 (DR (U kaaeh) S On 4-9-7 LPIggae 95 

(2) 644210 R0C0UADE BAY 13 (lUF^T (0 Bnototfl U Bolsa 50-6 JWMms 97 


PI 000013 SHAUSH0M AL ARAB 36(F) (tes to Mb*) * Cato 40-2. DBfflBs 95 

(4) 041332 AILANTC WAV 13 (0) [C MB) C IS 40-0 FNntoo(3) ffi 

(I) 631314 PC HATCH 28 (&BF.F) (Ufcs E AMaeJ U nescoB 3-7-13 GDAK 90 

BETT)N&94SmrBfaao,7-2MDaBtatPtoKdrit5-i Stanriun AI Atot 13-2 tote Way. fecqnta 
ta 

1991: RACE A STAR 600 J Put I&-!) R Akiuri 9 ai 


COURSE SPECIAUSTS 


TRADERS 

Wtc 

Rnrs 

V 

JOCKEYS 

Wins 

Mbs 

% 

L Cum 

21 

to 

525 

SCauflKQ 

10 

35 

266 

AStawrt 

8 

24 

333 

W Carson 

47 

192 

245 

W Here 

4 

12 

313 

LOBWl 

16 

6/ 

23J) 

JGosdtn 

B 

21 

296 

M Robsrc 

20 

1110 

2(U) 

MPictto 

IB 

67 

285 

A Memo 

13 

M 

19.4 

Btotwy 

5 

2D 

250 

PtiEddoy 

21 

116 

iai 


The Fellow 
may tackle 
Hennessy 


By Rjchard Evans 


THE FELLOW, runner-up in 
the last two runnings of the 
Cheltenham Gold Cup. could 
line up for the Hennessy 
Cognac Gold Cup on Novem- 
ber 28. 

Francois Douraen is eyeing 


the top Newbury race as the 
big test for France’s 


first big test for 
chasing sure, who has recently 
come back into training fol- 
lowing his summer break. 

Provided the seven-year-old 
is awarded a racing weight 
and there is good ground. 
Doumen wQl be tempted to go 
to Newbury before preparing 
The FeDow to defend the King 
George VI Chase at Kempton 
on Bating Day. 

Topsham Bay, winner of the 
Whitbread Gold Cup at 
San down in ApriL has also 
been pencilled in for the 
Newbury race by David 
Barons. 

“Topsham Bay is a picture 
and is looking a really exciting 
horse.” Barons said yesterday. 
“I’m thinking of the Hennessy 
as his early target as he loves 
Newbury. But I will be hoping 
to get a run into him prior to 
that” 



Doumen: Newbury aim 


rv - - V- Vul 




MANDARIN 

sao Eau D*Espoir. 6.00 Padiord. 630 Play The Blues. 
7.00 Lapiafte. 7.30 WBesdon. a 00 Merchant House. 
THUNDERER 

530 VHso. a 00 Cavak. 630 Play The Blues. 700 
LapiaRe. 730 KADAN (nap)- 8.00 Bayphia. 


GOING: FIRM 


5.30 GO SPORT PLYMOUTH JUVBULE NOVICES 
M1HDLE (3-Y-O: £1 502.' 2m if 110yd) (12 runners) 


COPTLAlEllFMOanan 10-12 

DOLLAR W*E 19 J Uok 10-12 

MOORuneitotoiwrara id-w — 
FSTVAL PKST 16 IT Itoir 10-12 


.. s 


LemVbeax 

ACtetei 


MFfcbMJs 


TYFW«fi.Y«fl»(B)Uta ’0-12 MFMtePl 


WLCO 9F A luaefi 10-12- 
EAU DTSPOR 15 J Cpanj 10-7 


SI 


KVI0 BOOK 23F R Itonamj 10-7 Rta*( 

0 MEADOR GAME 11 VGMnMMO-7 PHMgy 

SULAAHRDSE25F Ite JJodan 10-T MStoBtot 

TOuroevALBttotaTO.7 ww» 

0 W9ff3»lJ6Hlia»1BDW«aklO-7 PI 


b-4 Tfwe F^- 9-2 ICxi last E>-1 i*r6ra. 6-1 EA: DUodb. 10-1 Dote Mu. 
tart 1«-1 Caw Une. 20-1 Tal De M. 25-1 itas. 


6.00 RGB CONTRACTORS OF PLYMOOTH SBL- 
IHG HANDICAP HURDLE (£1.614: 2m It 110yd) (15) 


m FWKAFA5U57 (?) Rite 11-124 ETfeMy { 

0-22 PAUKKD 15 (r£i DMOc»-11-T3 R Ota I 

3- 2P 03CaMM 13 ®Ffl 9 5ta 11-11-6 W 1 

014 ARTHURS 5RW 25 (G£)0 Bruno 6-114 Ml 

ff42 VAW 13 (SJJ) C Pta» 1 7-114— fl 1 . 

12P- TfiVJJSS CASTLE 176 (B 5 Cole 5-HW LtftoVkM 

P-3F OANCMGEYESI tl Plper-lD-3 DRCtnondm 

02- SeEXTRSSQN EOF IfcESnnb 7 -10-1 NKnte 

4- 54 LASE LAS 19 0F) Ifei J Mbmctol 8-104 5 For (7) 

204 CMMK11 IB) Iters J Jortton 4-16-0 MSbvto 

053- STAP1BURB LAW 114 R Iteneg 4-1W) — M A I 


504- GVPSV TRAC 104 MPHifte 4-104 Pew I 

0DP JMSTt3(BLF£iGft*8-1W) Rfita 

Iff®- S1VERHBXS 98 T HA9 9-104 S Hector 

5W 6DB0M021(CBflDJe«rMM J Hems Of 


4-1 Pi&aa. M rant n-r Sjfsy Too. 6-i Law ua, 8-1 tang Eyes, Fra 
tpe w i 1C-I Asm Cane, 12-1 Gtoaneeen. 16-1 toes. 


COURSE SPECiALlSTS 


TRAHERS: U P/pe. 93 tonaes ton 218 mans. 43 1\ p HoOte, 
20 bos 1 »2. 17 JV A tarar. 5 bom 37, US* R Red. 1 3 ton 99, 
131V T ItfBL 6 tar. 52. 115V Ms J Woman. 7 tan 69, 
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24 SPORT 


THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 


Alan Lee, Cricket Correspondent considers the successes and failures of the first England manager 

Stewart stepping down with tiis position assured 


HE TOOK an idea and gave 
it an identity. That, perhaps. is 
the most fitting epitaph for 
Micky Stewart’s six-year ten- 
ure as England cricket man- 
ager. The job was on trial as 
much as the man back in 
1987, but as Stewart passes 
the baton to Keith Fletcher 
there is a meaningful silence 
from the malcontents who 
once wondered aloud whai a 
manager could possibly do 
that a captain csould not 

If the time has yet to come 
when the public cannot recall 
an England team without a 
manager. I suspect this is now 
the case in the dressing-room, 
that territory where Stewart 
has dispensed support, advice 
and protection with a single- 
minded zeal which is at once 
his strength and weakness. 

His tendency to put the 
•team above everything, his 
personal health included, has 
created a national side of 
greater unity, purpose and 


commitment That is his suc- 
cess. His failure has been an 
occasional inability to separate 
loyalty from objectivity where 
his players are concerned, the 
enduring example of which is 
his complex about the dismiss- 
al of Mike Carting from die 
captaincy in the blood-letting 
summer of 1988. 

Stewart has sometimes had 
right on his side when berat- 
ing the media, but in blaming 
them for Gatling's demise he 
is misguided. Gating, as even 
some of his closest friends 
aver, should have lost die 
captaincy long before tie red 
herring of the barmaid, for 
behaviour on the field, both 
his own and that of some of 
his players, which no dear- 
thinking team manager 
should nave countenanced. 

In any review of a revolu- 
tionary few years under Stew- 
art, years for which every 
cricketer can to some measure 
be grateful this has to be the 


caviL Discipline was recog- 
nised, even improved, in so far 
as the rigours of training and 
playing are concerned, but 
Stewart was guilty, at least 
until Graham Gooch arrived 
as captain, of presiding over 
declining standards of con- 
duct on the fidd. 

He was, it seems, sometimes 
too dose to tie player^, too 
keen to create an impression 
that whatever England might 
have done was nobody's busi- 
ness but tie team’s, and that 
those who criticised were, as 
one, malicious interlopers. 

His judgment has thus 
periodically failed him in mat- 
ters such as the attempt to 
restore Gatling to the captain- 
cy in 1 989 (fee veto of which 
must have brought him dose 
to resignation} and the wild- 
eyed fracas with a New Zea- 
land cameraman after tie 
horrific injury to David Law- 
rence last winter. 

In both instances, however. 



Fletcher successful 

Stewart was acting in what be 
thought were tie best interests 
of the team and. however he 
may be -criticised, I cannot 
believe he has ever acted 
differently. 

He has admitted telling 
half-truths for his team and, in 
its defence; he is open in 


Stewart indefatigable 

deanring old pros who live 
ana think, in tie past and 
media men who seek to de- 
stroy rather than promote his 
game. • 

There are certain drawbacks 
to being a pioneer in>any job, 
bat tie upside is that ■ its 
detailed definition evolves at 


.yptm bidding. It nughi hav& 
been different if other Ray 
flfingworth or David Brown, 
who were also interviewed 
back in 1986.- had taken tie 
appointment • 

Illingworth, certainly, 
would have been more auto- 
cratic and if is worth spying 
here that Stewart high-profile 
. though he was, never once 
usurped tip nifjffufr authority 
-of tie captain, a principle he 
holds dear. _ • 

- Being an . indefatigable 
man, however, Stewart man- 
aged to make it such an aB- 
- consuming occupation that, 
he now jokes, his wife. Sheila, 
brieves he works 13 months a 

year. . r . V. 

Bob Simpson, who has been 
doing similar, duties for tie . 
-Australian team overariightiy 
longer period, was once fond 
of saying drat he aimed to do 
himself out of a job by making 
his team run so smoothly there 
would no kmger be a need for 


.concept, 
i noiHvourwna Stewart, 
for one of his targets was » 
malm himedf. or at lfi &L his 
post, indispensable. 

Proving the necessity for a 
manager is; quite tightly, doe 
of Stewart’s proudest boasts. 
He was saying as long ago as 
1988 that the fundamentally 
social nature of eridoet in 
England was no kmger any 
preparation for competing in- 
ternationally. He is still saying 
as much, but wink avowing 
that the village game should 
never alter, he has gone a 
s ubstantial way towards .dis- 
tancing tie national team,, 
forming an elite corps to take 
cm tie world. 

Not everyone approves, of 
course- Stewart, and latterly 
the England committee under 
Ted Dexter; have offended 
many who would prefer tie 
emphasis to remain on tie 
geimy festive ride of county 
cricket But Stewart is so 


emspetitive a creature, and so 
plausible a campaigner, that 
he has achieved many of tie 
refonns be basking cherished. 

After helping to choose the 
winter tour teams; fate next 
week. Stewart mil take , ha 
virions info tie development 
of youth cricket leaving tie 
.senior ride in different bands. 

Do not expert Fletcher to be 
sc viable, so vocal or so 
wfejntarily active in tie 
game’s politics. Fktcher did 
not seek tie job. fearing he 
might miss his lovely old 
rectory home, his garden and 
his fishing, notto mention his 
beloved Essex. . 

- There -is not tie obvious 
. missionary fervour in . him 
whichl erodes from Stewart 
But there is tie same abiding 
kwe-qf fee game, the same 
familiarity with success. 
Fleteher will do things his way, 
and there may be changes, but 
he w31 find the hulk of his' 
inheritance valuable. 


Late challenge could prove fruitless 

Essex well placed 
to retain the title 
despite uneven run 


By Alan Lee 

THE last county champion- 
ship in its confused form 
should be decided in tie next 
week. Essex, though neither as 
consistent nor formidable as 
of old. need a maximum of 48 
points from their last four 
games to retain a title which 
none of tie pretenders has 
looked capable of winning. 

The hot favourites have 
blundered at many a hurdle, 
yet t he pursuing pack has 
always kept a respectful dis- 
tance behind. Now. even a 
team coming with a late rush 
will almost certainly find the 
finishing line arrives too soon 
and Essex may well be cham- 
pions again with two games to 
spare. 

Essex have a 24-point lead 
over Kent, having played one 
game fewer. Leicestershire, in 
third place, are a further six 
points adrift and have only 
two games left, white the rest 
of the challengers have no 
realistic hope even if Essex fail 
to win another game and 
gamer only bonus points: 

The fact that the four re- 
maining rounds of fixtures are 
all of four days’ duration is to 
Essex's advantage, not only 
because the continuing unset- 
tled weather has less chance of 
sabotaging them, but because, 
being the best balanced ride, 
they are more likely to win 
over the longer period. 

Last year, they wrapped up 
tie title with two innings 
victories and another by nine 
wickets in their three condud- 


1 w 
18 

19 

20 
19 
19 
18 
18 
19 
19 
18 
19 
18 
19 
19 
18 
19 


D a BJPts 
5 5 54 50232 

2 10 53 43 208 
8 7 38 54202 

4 9 54 50200 
1 13 57 52 188 

5 7 43 46 185 

7 6 46 57 183 

8 6 50 45175 
5 9 40 50170 

4 9 38 51 169 

5 10 53 48 166 

6 8 51 48 164 
5 10 50 49 163 
fi 11 64 46158 

3 12 54 49 151 

4 12 48 55 151 
4 11 41 42131 
0 9 37 48 117 


tfl) 

Kent (6) 

Letes(l6) 

Northarta (10) 

MWtSesax (15) 

Notts (4) 

Wamiefts (2) 

S«TBy{5) 

Qoucs* (13) 

Darbys (3) 

Hampshfre (9) 

Sussex (11) 

Yoricshfra (14) 

Lancas hi re (8) 

Somaraet(17) 

Worcs* (7) 

Glamorgan (12] 18 
Durham (-) 19 

* Indudea abmdonad match 

(1991 posttons in brachats) 
Remak V ng fixtures 
ESSEX: Today: Sussex (a); Aug 31: 
Hampahre Pi): Sep 7: Derbyshire (a); Sep 
12: GloucesletBhBB (a). 

KENT: Today; Gloucestershire (h); Sep 7: 
Gtamorgai (hy. Sep 12: WanridoHre (a). 
LBCESTCRSHRE: Aim 31: Gtoucaster- 
sHre (a); Sep 12: Northamptonshire (h). 
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: Today. Midde- 
srax pi); Aug 31: YorfaWre (a); Sep 12: 
Lotoestereh*© (a). 


ing four-day games and. as the 
highest-placed team they still 
have to play is Gloucester- 
shire, presendy ninth, some- 
thing similar is likpfy . 

If the machine has not 
functioned so smoothly this 
year, the reasons are obvious. 
Neil Foster last summer do- 
nated 9 1 wickets to the 
championship cause. His 
creaking, aching knee has cut 
75 per cent from dial figure 
and Essex have been unable to 
instal a suitable substitute. 

Mark flott has not taken tie 
wickets he has sometimes de- 
served, white Toptey, Andrew 


and Fraser are no more than 
stand-ins. Pringle has not 
always been at his best and is, 
anyway, not a spearhead 
bowler, so tie focus has shifted 
ever more to the spin bowlers, 
John Childs and Peter Such. . 

These two epitomise one of 
the great Essex strengths, tie 
ability to revitalise an individ- 
ual's career. Between them 
they have taken 92 wickets so 
far. with their benefit games, 
played over tie extended time 
on end-oi-season pitches, 
about to start with today’s 
fixture at Hove. 

If Middlesex had been able 
to combine Emburey and 
Tufhefl all season, theiis 
might have been a sterner 
challenge. As it is, their steady 
recent dunb into fifth spot can 
come to no more than place 
money, a matter which will 
also be on the minds of fourth- . 
. placed Northamptonshire, 
their hosts today. 

That Kent remain the one 
side with an outside chance of 
the tide if Essex fall flat an 
tiedr feces, would have seemed 
an outrageous prophecy when 
the season began. 

But under Mark Benson 
and the coach. Daryl Foster, 
they have played positively to 
win seven games and lose only 
two. three fewer than Essex. 
They know they must also win 
their last three games though, 
beginning against Gloucester- 
shire at Canterbury today. 

For the rest of tie county 
workforce, any tension this 
week will come only from tie 
annual contract meetings. 


id fiekBng 

1 NO Runs 

HS 

Avgs 100 50 CM 

5 

1 

258 

85* 

6450 — 

3 

2 

5 

2 

187 

71* 

8233 — 

2 

3 

5 

0 

238 

103 

47m 1 

2 

SB 

5 

0 

198 

63 

3980 — 

2 

_ 

4 

2 

7B 

40 

3800 — 


2 

4 

0 

121 

45 

3025 — 

- 

2 

5 

0 

144 

80 

2880 — 

2 

— 

3 

2 

8 

6- 

ano — 


2 

2 

1 

5 

5* 

5.00 — 



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1 

0 

4 

4 

4.00 — 

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1 


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RASmtti 5 

GArtck 5 

AJ Stars! 5 

N H Fakbnxhar— 5 

ITBathan 5 

G A Gooch 4 

A J Lamb 5 

CC Lewis. 4 

PAJDoFrattas — 5 

HKMngworffi 5 

PLAYHJ IN TWO MATCHES: □ A Reave. 6*: D R Plhflte M noi M 

PLAYED N ONE MATCH: RJ EUcey, 25 (IcL 1st); G C Smafl dft 
not bM (let); □ G Cork rfd not bar. 

Bowling 


0 

M 

R 

W Avgo 

2 750 

BB 

9 Econ 

42 

0 

15 

2-7 

— 3.48 

20 

2 

77 

6 1283 

*■42 

— 385 

1 .. 518 

6 

200 

8 25.00 

3-33 

— 385 

54 

1 

230 

7 3285 

3-34 

— 425 

54 

2 

214 

5 4280 

2-45 

— 386 

21 

2 

88 

2 4480 

1-31 

— 4.19 

34 

3 

155 

3 5L66 

2-47 

— 455 


ALSO BOWLED: GCSmal 5.1-028-1; D G Cork 11-1-37-1; N H 
PfittJitthw 1-frM. 


Pakistan batting and fokflng 

U I NO ftra HS Avgs 100 50 Ctfe 
3 1 9S 55* -4TS0 —11 


Jared Mantel ...... 3 

AamarSohai 5 

SafimMaft 4 

RanXz Ra*a.„ 5 

Musttaq Ahmed — 5 

VYsam A*ram — .... « 

Inzamanud+laq — 5 

Asa M> Abe 4 

WaparYounta 3 

MoEiKhan 4 

Naved Anjum 4 

Aqfc Jnwd 5 


5 0 182 87 38,40 — 1 

4 0 143 40 35.75 — 

5 0 148 8S 29. 2D — 1 2 

3 2 29 14’ 2900 1 

4 1 73 34 2432 1 

5 0 118 75 2360 — 1 — 

* 0 92 52 2300 — 1 2 

1 0 13 13 1300 — 

2 0 2S 15 1300 S3 

4 2 25 12- 1350 — 

3 1 10 8 300 — 


PLAYED W ONE MATCH Rash* U B, 29; gaz Ahmed. 23; Short 
Muhamm a d. 9; Tan* Mehd, a 

Bowfing 

O M R W Amo 88 9 Earn 

Vtaqor Yaaiis ....... 282 0 187 9 1&55 4-73 — 509 

AamerSchati 28 0 137 5 27.40 2-22 — 326 

Aqb Jared <7 0 280 8 3250 3-54 — 353 

WannAfasm 414 3 180 4 4500 2-41 — <32 

NaredArtun 30 0 132 2 68.00 2-48 — 4.40 

MushtaqAhmod 52 2 243 212150 1-34 — 487 

ALSO BOWLED: Tam* Mahdi 11-0-72-1 ; llaz Ahmad 44V290: Astf 
Mujmbo 18-0-12BO. 

□ Compted by Rfcftsd Lockwood Source: TCC&BuB 



Rain hinders young Sri I ankans 


By John Woodcock 

TAUNTON (first day of four, 
Sri Lanka won toss): England 
Under-} 9 have scored 136 for 
four against Sri Lanka Under- 
19 

• 

IT WAS early afternoon yes- 
terday before tie County 
Ground at Taunton had re- 
covered from the effects of 
heavy overnight rain, which 
meant a ration of only 64 
overs in tie second of the three 
four-day Under- 19 games be- 
tween England and Sri 
I.antcg. 

The Sri Lankans have been 
haring no hick with tie wea- 
ther. but they bowled tidily 
and were as keen as mustard 
in the field, if rather too noisy. 
It is their second tour to 
England at this level the other 
having been in 1986 when, in 
the corresponding match to 
this, played at Bristol A.P. 
Garusmha scored 161. Last 
week he made 137 against 
Australia in Colombo, sadly 
not in a winning cause. 


Though it may have rained 
on this side, it has done so in 
nice places. They have played 
already at some great schools 
— Wellington College, Oundle 
and Uppingham — and have 
Winchester and MDlfidd to 
come. The first of the four-day 
games was at Headingley; the 
last is at Worcester. 

They dap and chatter cease- 
lessly, and never miss a chance 
to appeal To the first ball of 
the day, from Alexander, Rob- 
inson must have been close to 
leg-before. Instead he stayed 
for an hour and a quarter. 


putting bat solidly to ball 
before he was teg-bdbre. 

These matches are given to 
leading umpires (Ken Palmer 
and David Shepherd in this 
case), and that is all to the 
good: it is a boost for tie teams 
and allows the umpires a look 
into the future. 

As much the most experi- 
enced of the England bats- 
men, it was only to be expected 
that Weston should look the 
most mature. Having been 
unable to come to terms with 
Oxford, he is now deciding 
whether to accept a place at 


Seamers take control 


Maiara, Sri Lanka: Mike 
Whitney and Tony 
Dodemaide gave the Austra- 
lians the upper hand by 
exploiting a pitch which 
encouraged seamers to.dist- 
miss the Southern Province 
Combined XI for 164 yester- 
day. Dodemaide finished vrith 
three for 19 off 15 overs and 
Whitney had the even more 


impressive figures of four for 
34 off 20 overs. 

The Australians, who took a 
first-innings teadof 148. were 
40 for two after the second 
day : of the three-day 
match. (Reuter) 

SOOflE&'AuBtraSm 312 for 9 dec (M E 
WaJQhlie, lAHeafrTB not Out, D Matyn 
81 : KWJeBunawrilena 4 lor 683 ma 40 far . 
2; Souttiem PiwfocaCombtnedXI 164 (M R 
VVHtrwy 4 for 34) • ’ • 


Cambridge or to grre priority r 
to plying for Worcestershire. 
Alfeough he should twice have 
been caught at slip yesterday, 
when 37 arid 73, he is 
formidably acquisitive. . In the 
end, he was given out, caught 
at long leg. when Silva seemed 
todroptiebafi. 

There was a long spell of 
.flatfish off breaks from Sajith 
.Fernando/ in which he. had 
Lqye caught at toe wicket and. 
bowled at the legs of Weston 
and Walker, -another -left- 
hander. But for Weston's com- 
petence, tie game could have 
come to a s tandstill 

SIGLAND IWDSMB: ft* Iret^s 

ORcfalnaontMbCtonarrtne 24 

*PWesioncS0««bAtecarcJer 77 

M loye c Hamid b S Fernando ^ 1. 


M Wafer eWaaabSSva 

M Window* not out.. 

J Snaps not out 


. 15 
-6 
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Extras (bS. fe5. w2, nblj . 11 

Tow (4«*&g _ ; ue 

T waton, G Chappie, tfi RoBns. M 


Broadhurst aid R Befadarto baL 
SRJUNKA UNDQM* s ftmando, R 
AmofcLM Wn W Reran, 0 Perura. te 
ftmen do -S Alex ander, M Hamid, C 
Waas, P Gutarafaa. K SVw. 

UmphftiL K E Palmar and D R Shepherd. 
CORHBCnotl: Q ta m uran « faran-inu i. 


Broad to 
leave in 
Hendrick 
shake-up 

CHRIS Broad, tire Conner 
England opening batsman, 
was yesterday released by Not- 
tinghamshire as part of a 
shake-up designed to proride 
some of their promising 
young playera with greater 
first-team opportunities. 

. As wefi as Broad, Notting- 
hamshire have not offered 
new c onfin es to Eddie 
Hcmxnmgs, another former 
Test flayer, and Kevin Coo- 
per, the seam boMer who has' 
been afected by injury . 

. Broad. 34, who riill har- 
bours nflgnational ambitions 
after the fifting of his ban for 
tOLsing South Africa, was 
ironically offensd a four-year 
contract tty Nottinghamshire 
at tiie itod'of last season, but 
diose instead to sign only for 
one year; while negotiations 
over bis future wife the dub 
cctatin6ttt~ '• 

Since then, however. Not- 
tin't 


bf management,’ 
with Mike Hendrick stepping 
in after tie surprising depar- 
ture of John Burii 
“Since I was appctiited, i 
have been as impressed by the 
number of young players of 
real potential as with any other 
fea&neof the dub.** Hendrick 
said.*Thededsk>ns have been 
far from easy ones to take in all 
three cases, but have been 
readied in order to provide 
greater o pport u nities for our 
crop of highly promising 


. helped Nottingham- 
shire to win four trophies in 
his time at Trimt Bridge after 
moving from Gloucestershire 
in 1 984 and won 25 caps. 


Britannic Assurance 
county championship 
11-0. IIOovsBmHnun 
DBtBYi Dabyshhe v Somerset 
DAHJNGTON: Ourhan v Hampehk* 
CANTERBURY: Kent v Gloucestershire 
OLD TRAFK3RD-. LarycasNre v 
YotahBB- 

NO FmiAMPTON: Nathans v 
Middlesex 

HOVE: Sussex v Essex 
B5GBA8TON: WanMctahte v 
Bte m or ga n 

WORCfcsTSt Worcestershire v 
Notangtwnshirs 
Iwa mag pi Ml match 
three days 

SCARBOROUGH: World XI v Pakutorts 

Second Under-19 Test 
TAUNTON: England v Sri LoVca 
RAPID CRICIteTLME SECOND XI 
CH AMPIONS HIP: Cheltenham: 

v Durham. Folkeaona: 
KantvNorDvtfaurWSra The Ovat Sumy 

2 ynxatenhn: UMc Glamor uan v 
Winwaahtrft Sotganaxotv HampMte v 


HOCKEY 


Wales come up against 
quick-firing Germans 


HOLLAND, the host country, 

qualified for the semi-finals of 

the European junior champ- 

ionship wife a 3-0 victory over 
Switzerland in Pool B at 
Vught yesterday (Sydney 
Friskin writes). 

The Dutch, with strong 
resources in attack and de- 

fence. are expected to reach 
the final They were fourth in 

1988 at Santander. Spain. 

Germany, aiming for their 
fourth successive title, made 

sure of their place in the semi- 

finals when they defeated 
Spain 3-0 oo Monday. Oliver 
Kurtz, a member of Germa- 
ny's Olympic gold-medal win- 
ning .team at Barcelona, 
scored tie third goal , immed- 

iately after returning from a 
ten-minute period . of 
suspension. 

Dirk Orflinger obtained the 


second goal before he was 
temporarily suspended and 
Bellenbaum, the third- Wales, 
wife two points from two 
drawn matches, face a daunt- 
ing task today. against the 
Gormans, who have scored 15 

goals in two matches. 

Wales, who had drawn 4-4 
with Spain on the first day, 
were surprisingly helped to a 
1-1 draw on Monday by 
Czechoslovakia, who had last 
12-0 to Germany. Justin 
Thorpe’s goal in the third 
minute for Wales was an- 
swered by Roman Marik in 
the 5 1st minute. 

Germany, as holders; and 
Spain, as hosts, qualify auto- 
matically for fee next junior 
World Cup to be hdd at 
Terrassa, Spain, in September 
next year. Three others qualify 
from the presort contest 


BOWLS 


Early exit for two title-holders 


THE only two title-holders to 
qualify for this summers Eng- 
lish Bowling Federation nat- 
ional championships fell at the 
first hurdle at Skegness yester- 

day, when Jimmy Summons 
and Mavis Emmonds went 

out of the four bowi angles 

events. 

Summons, of Kesangiand. 
Suffolk, a regular qualifier for 
these championships, 
dropped a four to North 
Cambridgeshire’s Fred Bailey 
to trail 1 1-6, but fought back 
to take fee lead at 18-16. 

He was allowed only one 
entry on the score card alter 

that — a double on the 24th 

end that squared the match 

dramatically at 20-20. On a 

tense last end, Bailey, who 
collects coins and matchboxes, 
collected a single and a notar 
ble scalp. . 


By David Rhys Jones 

Meg Fisher, tie 1987 
champion, from Warboys 
White Hart. Huntingdon- 
shire. was always in control of 
her opening xnaldi against 

Emmonds. the defending 
champion, in the women’s 
four bowl angles. Leading 10- 

4 after ten ends, she was only 

three shots in front after 20, 

but finished strongly to record 

a 21-14 victory. 

RESULTS: Man: Tm Stoofac FW 

fount R Hams (GKfaay H* N CM* M 

R Ufemne (Baran, sufeW. 21-20: EYo* 
On Tree. Cterafendj-bt HDatm (Gar HE. 
rtmbefsda), 21-15; G Shgpassen 
fStttfand. DeityitM) t* J Japoentfekii, 
Hartal. 21-18:- M Johnson (Mondaon 

Dere. Dufon) B f 

T«sv 



Briey (Susan Law. Nobs], 21-17; & _ 
(John Srire a PaKOoriareq bt M 
Dobflrtrem (Liras CAV. EssoC. 21-13; S 


Robson (New Deteval. Mal u n Wrt l bt 

J Bel (SwansMe. CXjrtwm), 21-ia Pris □ 

Cooper end J Mae (\fctata P*rfc. Dertv 

shfre) w L Sharps wd B Lent (YMay 

Broadway. tafflaW, 19-13: B Drier mi 
P Thomas (Santty; Hartal bs K WHtoheed 
and M Shaw (Portland Sam. No**), 

20-12: K HoNnsswonti and M Detwtnm 

(Liras CAV, Essex) at j Pbscs and K 

Land CSnM» Wbs End. Oeirianty, 21- 

Wfaraen: 1 Vn bawl singles: P Mzon 
(Hawtri Town. Essex) « J H ofin s on 

Feterborou^i and DfatncL NorthvM 21- 

20; M Hsmmani (Nonn WeWian, NorfeM 
bt P Maiples (Wind. D ert vsrtnri 21-17; 

M teat (modhri &e Toon, Linootahbre 

fat J Hu&nreon aiwien Rad Uon, 

Humbaridri). 21 - 1 & s Snan (BreirtA 
Lane. North Cantos) bt A Tatoot 
. Duhsnrt 21-15: J Chajmen 

Herts} bt G Gitmwood 

sswotSi, Angsl. Suft*) 21 - 11 . Four 
I riMtoK C Huitor (Rstetoaough Bto 
DW) &i TTVwb Ctyslone (DsrtwshlreL 21- 
20 ; S omt CBhMd (Notts ) 61 de tee- 

PacktotJ [Pnwrttri, SuSfoH. 21-16; M 

Hsher [ttfartxiyeWhta Han) bt M Ernnonde 
(Saatan OdneL NataiMM, 21-14, 
wx. M Gortrey end J aeeiwj 
(Clpstone. DatoysNri « SGertde end M 
Wfaon (Menhtogfaam, Lncs). 13 * 15 , A 
Hatom and J Beerdstey ( Mara SNu L Notts! 

« L Bri end N Gmn (Fritoter PKk 

Ctodand, 23-15: SAmtewaato A west ■ 
Msten. SirioM far J md V Scott 
Iposiany, Nortw), 23-10. 



BRIDGE 

British have 
solid start 
atOfympiad 

Salsomaggiorc, Italy: Brit- 
ain's Open team has made a 
good start to the world team 

Olympiad here; winning suo- 
cessiveiy against Hong Kong, 
Ireland, Mexico. Japan. Den- 

mark and Philippines before 
losing 1 7-13 to Austria yester- 
day (Albert Dormer write^. 

After seven rounds the lead- 
ers in Britain’s 29-nation qual- 
ifying group are: IsraeL 138: 
Austria. 136; Great Britain, 
1 36; and Belgium, 134. 

Britain is also going well in 
tie women’s Olympiad, with 
eight wins, one defeat and .a 

bye. In the tenth round yester- 

day. Britain gained an impor- 
tant. win, 19-11, over 
Australia, leaving them sec- 
ond in their group behind 
Ranee, the dear leaders. 




MODERN PENTATHLON 


Kipling finishes fourth ■» 
as her opponents fade 


MANY of tile rest fen off. but 
Elizabeth Kipling, 19. from 
Darlington, kept upright dur- 
ing the final day’s showjump- 
ing to finish as top Briton at 
the senior Worid Cup contest 
m Corby (Michael Coleman 
writer. Her good ride, the 
fourth best of 37 competitors, 
also earned her selection for 
tie worid junior champion- 
ships next week in Modena. 

.Kipting-ssuccess-^ewas 
ninth in the national cfaampi- 
ondfips - is gratifying proof 
that the sport is taking root 
outside tie south of Enrijmd. 
Selected wife her for Modena 
were Michelle Kfrnberiey 
Helen Nicholas, and Julia 
Allen. 

The latter, who was en- 
gaged at the weekend in a 
ropy Club tetiafekra at 
Stondeigh, which she won, 

t 


. would have been an asset < 
the difficult course at Cort 

No . fewer than four of 
tine, overnight leaders v 
rii m i n ated, mri udfng the 
Russian, Yana Dolgacb 
^bo, in first place, se er 
"Wind for victoiy. This 
ahted tie pSe, . Ei 

Malostyc. the onfy one to si 

a dear round over the 
°hstades, to win ahead of 
colleague, Anna Sufi 
Oolgacheva had a stm 

fejaWay misfortune wriie 
the month at Beriin. 



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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1992 




SPORT 25 


RUGBY UNION 


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By Gerald Davies 


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IF SOUTH Africa showed in 
their International against 
New Zealand that at least one 
of the new law changes is an 
unqualified success — where 
the ball can be thrown in 
quickly before a full Jineout 
has had time to form — the 
new law governing the ruck 
and maul, however, is more 
contentious. Bob Dwyer, as he 
prepared nis Australian Mm 
to face South Africa last week- 
end. voiced his dissatisfaction 
with it 

Elsewhere, too, coaches are 
already gening hot under the 
collar a tout what is an experi- 
mental variation on the Jaw. 
Each of the three superior 
rugby countries. England, 
New Zealand and Australia, 
have been vociferous in its 
condemnation since the Inter- 
national Rugby Football 
Board announced its inten- 
tion last spring. Briefly, the 
Law says that when the ball 
becomes unplayable at either a 
ruck or maul and a scrum is 
ordered then the bad shall be 
pul in by the ream not in 
possession at the commence- 
ment of either of these loose 
play situations. 

The argument against the 
change states that it violates an 
important principle of rugby 
football. That is to say, the 
team going forward wfll be 
rewarded. From now on. it 
ain't necessarily sa From now 
on in these particular areas of 


the game die guiding prinri- 
t the ball i 


pie will be that the ball must be 
kept “alive" and not be 
allowed to “die" at the bottom 
of a suffocating pile of inert 
bodies. 

Therefore, there is an obli- 
gation to promote more con- 
tinuous movement To have 
fewer of those long-winded 
and unsightly passages- of 
pushing and shoving which 
only encourages the layman to 
interpret rugby union simply 
as an infinitely more compli- 
cated, though no more sophis- 
ticated, version of the Eton 
wall game. 

The beauty of rugby’s laws. 



Dwyer not satisfied 


despite, or perhaps because of, 
iheiF obscurity of anlbiguity; is 
the scope they often allow for a 
variety of tactics. While any 
number of factors' from pure 
talent to a spot of rain, for 
instance; may determine a 
team's intention on any one 
day. the over-riding influential 
factor — excepting skill — on 
the style of rugby , js the vision 
the players and their coaches 
bring to the game. They can 
limit their choice of tactics or 
expand' enr them. It is the 
shrewd judgment in their 
deployment which is impor- 
tant Styles emerge; some are 
more appealing than others. 
By and large, what we under- 
stand as the running game is 
preferred. 

Over one glorious weekend 
of the World Cup semi-finals 
last autumn, the contrasts 
which rugby encourage were 
on view, at Murrayfield and 
Lansdowhe Road. England, 
unsure of tfatir overall stre n gt h 
Or unwilling to test it a gftipgf 
the Scots, were certain, that 
simple possession among their 
powerful forwards would, 
more or less, ensure a final 
place. They were right and 
played a dour and successful 
match. It enchanted the Eng- 
lish partisans but foiled to 
(harm anyone else. The match 
world have appealed to the 
mind of an objective observer, 
too, but not his heart. 

The following day Australia 
and New Zealand played a 
match of greater width and 
depth of movement This, 
dare I say, tickled the minds 
and hearts of us afl. 

If any . game may have 
peisuaded the international 
board that a change in rude 
and maul might be worth an 
experiment then toe balance 
of their views could wefl have 
been tipped in that direction 
by what they saw in that first 
match at Murrayfield. Eng- 
land stifled Scotland out of 
existence, yet only three points 
separated them at toe end. 
Hence forward, the law mat- 
ers may have concluded that 
the team who has the ball has 
the duty to keep it mobile. 

In response, coaches seem 
to be protesting too much. A 
few red herrings are already 
emulating and. like many a 
good dummy, there are those 
quite happy to buy them. The 
new law. it is argued, win only 
encourage negative skills from 
the defending team so as to 
stop the ball hum being freed. 
But the answer is surely that it 
is up to the team with toe ball 
to improve its own protective 
skills or release toe ball earlier, 
like American football and 
rugby league toe laws now 
impose certain limits bn the 
team in possession. 


FOOTBALL 


Lata results on Monday 


FA PREMHEH LEAGUE: Southampton a 
Manchester Uiwecf 1. 


NEVILLE OVBUDBN COMBINATION: 
First division: Crystal Palace 4. toaWchQ 
Second dMaton: Exeter Cay 4. flymouih 
Argyte 0. 

PONTTNS CENTRAL LEAGUE: Second 
division: Coventry City J. HuH CflyO. 
BEA2ER HOMES LEAGUE' Pramlw tfw- 
skxv Coctw Town 1. VS Rugby 3; 
Heanestori 0. Halesowen 3 
DJADORA LEAGUE: Premier division: 
St average Borough 2. Ywcfcte a Brst 
division: Lewes 0. Croydon 3: Fujtea 2, 
Maidenhead Uttfed 0 Serand (Mateo: 
Rutsfip Manor 4. SorntnJ 0. Third cflwgloq: 
Trtng 0. PerereSeld 2. 

HFS LOANS LEAGUE: Premier dMsiorr 
Envey ^ FhcMey ft Hytte a M«0CK 0. Fhrt 
{ftrtstoir Caernarfon Town 4, Wamngtan 
Town 1. Guseley a Curnn Athlon 3, 
GREAT MILLS LEAGUE; Premier (Mslon: 
Maraol3ft6id Ufd Z Chflpaitwn Twin t 
Taunton Tcwm 0. Torquay UU 1. 


BASEBALL 


-L NATIONAL LEAGUE: CJncmdi Reds 0. 
« Mb« s New Yak Mats 4, 


Cuts 6. 


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J 


Fhiadetpha Phfies 5. 

, San Frencteco Giants i; 

San Diego Padres 3: Los 

5. PWsttiirfi Praes 4. 

AMERICAN LEAGUE: New Yak Yankees 

9. MBwamee Brewers & CaSomta Angels 

5. Baltimore Orioles ft OeHand A'a 9, 

Boston Red Sm ft Chicago Write Son ft 

Toronto Btua Jays 4: Detiat Teas ft 
Minnesota Turns 2 


BOXING 


MEXICO CITY: Wold Boxing Cpufld 

(WBC) WterelghtchampbnsficcMAn- 
pd Gcreater (Max) a W flocha (Col), rac 


CRICKET 


RAPID CRICKETUNE SECOND XI 
CHAUPKMSHF: Bournemouth: Hamp- 
shire 301-7 dec aid 78-2 dec: LoCfcster- 
shtre 77-2 dec and 31-1. Match drawl 
Uandarcy: Dirhem 41-3.v Gtemorgufl. No 

pfcy.reiri 


GOLF 


Ceiuterm Welsh 

find-round 

73: D 
74: P pros 

H»);M 


- ASHBURNAN: CSS 

Professional Open: _ 

scores: 71: C Evans 
Vaughen (Veto d Uant- 
ffioirty Snvcec). K Lurt 

Batemm (St Marys), N 

75: W Locfcefl (Ughtwy. 

/HawkstofB Part), R Evans (Pyte and 
KrM Dlora{fwP«1hcwfU.{«mer 
Wea Mkkfleeex}, M Brans (Fekwood 
Part). D Wood (CufiepanO. 

THE BELFRY, Sutton CottBWflt Raid 
Amateur na tio na l finals: Scotland, fc* 

WMas. BN-®* tScottsft names ftsft 

■ Foursomes: G 8rown<and.C Umson ts 0 

Ms and K WBwns. 4 and 3: 8 Fby end S 


McKenda halved wfihIHB and G Warns: I 
Johnsson and D WINIfln bl l Staciifeton end 
P WtortNng, Z and 1: P Tort and p Cnmpbe* 
bt G Evans end S FSjc*. 6 and 4. BtogteK 
Johnston bt Bone. 3 and 6; Fby-toss m 
WBs. 3 and 2; Tool lost to K VWtems, 2 and 
1: Camptxjn tea to Ehoddeton, 6 and 5: 
MCKendad Hft 9 and 7; Brown bt 


Worthing 5 and 3.- Northern Intend tx 

England. 


. 6K-SH (tosh names first}. Four- 


somee: O Gibson and N Munw hehed tefii 

" ssaMt 


8 Cofingwood and I Scores Meteor and G 


Dorglas bt F Ledorand P Gtames, 5 and 4; 

G Feetey and B Leroter bt E Vancp-and A 
Bredshae.SandlrJDonnefi'andMNumni 

loeJ to □ Menflt and T Jones; 3 and 2. 


s Gfceoi ter to Cottonwood. 2 and 

r,6arx3 6: Fedeyd 


l: Dufiy bt Bradhaaw, _ 

Vanoo, 3 and 2; Donnell bt Jones, 4 and 2: 

Nugent bt Mart, 2 tides: Lennar tod to 


Sconm, 6” and 5. Final positions: 1, 

Scodend; 2.N Ireland. 3. England; 4, Wales. 


BURJflLL FAMILY FOURSOMES- TOUR- 

NAMENTVFhxt nxivt S and M Snadlng 

bt T end E Edwareto Stoke 

'3, and a P and M PMay 

. bf-S.and R Phlips 

tarHdeSaO, 3 and ft J McXtesack 
WntMort) and H Rw IRoyal Md 
bl A Hunan GtokeiyMsytand) and 
Human {Royal UU &irayJ. 3 «1 Z B and S 


Rtehie (Most Sussex) tt R Bridges and S 
arid™ {YWdnd. 5 end 4: R and A Boyd 
©ofcrte) bl A Spsnox and S Joyce 

1. 6 and $: T&d S Moroan wifes 
bt J Street (BuMJanaN JStreei 

1. 7 and 5: D and D Coffins (Boh* 

••• - • IB). Band 4; H 

, *ss3(fid Over B 

and RGundy (Wtftan Hsatft); B andACW 

(Bonham Beechee) wefcad over M and A 
Kidd (St George's HB): C and E MS 
rEAwham;- bt J VWson and J Wfton 
hrandhdgal. 5 and 4; D Baitey (Hetaate H*) 
aid K Frearson (WatoHaa*ju^wsr 
owppoaad: L and A (Sbflil faaW bt M 
arto Jftowtedgefflutoil, 7wdftA9owW 
andR StovoWPSeslSoTBri *M«d werD 

MantessM (SonfcwWalfW c lAtoian 

(AUtoughJ: 8 TBng aidp I 
Wmbtedon) bl O 


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aid K Donald (Weal 


and 7and6:AandP 




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i: P andM-Barim (Wea Smax) waftfld 

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Pivot (Wa d C and A Bondt&iligg. 
ai19tri: J H en der so n and S Best (BotraOOt 
"■and E water Wd &ney). one 
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TWnirtrsrn (Sp). n'.Oft ft P Aztoger IUS). 
1034; 9, J Sok(US). 10.11; W,NP«« 
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GOLF 


! EQUESTRIANISM 


Daughter 

helps 

Benka 


through 


BY A OORR£SPO\DK\T 


Spence European Tour performances have gained him a Dunhill Cup place on merit 


Spence has earned his reward 


PETER Benka, the former 
• Walker Cup international, 
had to thank his 16-year-old 
daughter. Claire, for a safe 
passage through the firs; 
round of the Burhil! Family 
Foursomes when this 55-year- 
old event began on the Surrey 
course yesteitlay. 

During the recent school 
holidays Miss Benka has re- 
duced her handicap from ten 
to seven, which means that 
she and her father will have to 
give away even more strokes 
than was'originally the case. 

But. even though conceding 
three shots to a formidable 
Sunnincdale partnership of 
Julia Holland and her son. 
Hugh, they still survived a 
high-quality dash on the last 
green. 

Miss Benka holed three 
vital 1 5 ft puns and then, at toe 
last hole, played a superb five- 
wood approach shot from out 
of toe rough right into the 
heart of the green to make sure 
of their place in the second 
round. But the Holland family 
had every reason to regret the 
expensive three putts they 
expended on both the 1 3th 
told 1 5th greens. 

Another Benka combina- 
tion. Pam, a former Curds 
Cup international, and 19- 
year-old son. Mark, did not 
have to strike a blow in taking 
their place in the second 
round, receiving a walkover 
when the Burghley Park pair. 
Ann and Paul Kenneally. had 
to scratch because of business 
commitments. 


Jam fails 


to stop 
dressage 
success 


By John Hennessy 


SUCCESS In golf, as in other 
games, means different 
things to different people. For 
Vijay Singh, of Fiji last 
week's German Open brought 
his second victory of the 
season. For Jos6 Carrfles, of 
Spain, a second place in his 
fust season on the European 
Tour provided not only 
E5W75 in prize-money but 
also the guarantee of his 
player’s card next season. 

More modestly placed 
though he was. twelfth. 
James Spence secured a pos- 
ition which has left him, as he 
explained yesterday, “ecstat- 
ic”. It meant that he would 
take a place in the English 
team alongside Steven Rich- 
ardson and David Gilford for 
the Dunhill Cup in October. 

“Some people think I got 
the place because Nick Faldo 
wasn’t available,” he points 
out. “but that’s not toe case. 
Steve took his place, not me. I 
think. I deserve to be in 
because of my consistency. 
I’m m the top 12 of the stroke- 
average table with 70.43, 
second among English play- 
ers only to Faldo.” 

Spence; a modest young 
man of 29 who should fit 


nicely into a team of tike- 
minded characters, is a role 
mode] for aspiring young 
professional golfers. Unlike 
his two companions, both 
former English champions, he 
never rose above county level 
as an amateur. 

As a professional his 
achievements were modest in 
his first four years but he 
persevered and managed to 
keep his head above water 
with the help of Nevill dub 
members. Hiat all changed in 
1990. the year, coincidentally 
or not, of his marriage. 

Sally Arm may well have 
been an influence, but in 
golfing terms he feels he owes 
much to Paid Huggett the 
Nevill professional who 
cured his reverse pivot by 
getting him to transfer weight 
from left foot to right in the 
tack swing. 

Beyond that, be worked 
hard on physical develop- 
ment. which pushed up his 
weight at 5ft Sin, “from ten 
stone and a bit to I i stone 10, 
mostly muscle — though my 
wife might not agree". 

That enabled Spence to 
play four rounds without any 
distress and gave him more 
length. "Before." he says, "I 
couldn't reach the par fives in 


two, even with a three wood. 
Now they are afl in range.” 
The turning point for him 
come in the 1990 Open. 
Playing right through from 
the regonal qualifying, he 
stunned the golf world with a 
65 in toe second round of the 
competition proper, during 
which be was leading the field 
Ibra time. 

He finished 22nd for a prize 
of nearly £8.000, but perhaps 
more valuable was the experi- 
ence of playing alongside 
Nick Price in the third round 


and Mike Reid in the fourth 
in front of big galleries. That 
all happened at St Andrews, 
so he is unlikely to be over- 
awed when he returns there in 
October for the Dunhill Cup. 

His next target he says, is 
the Ryder Cup team next year. 
With that in mind he is 
passing up this week's Mur- 
phy's English Open and will 
spring into action again with 
the Canon European Masters 
at Crans-sur-Sierre next week, 
the first tournament counting 
for Ryder Cup points. 


Also through went Mavis 
Pollin and her son, Richard, of 
the host dub, who came 
through on the final green as 
well against toe West Sussex 
partnership of Sue and Tim 
Mote. That kept toe PoDtts on 
course to be toe first pair to 
win the title two years in 
succession since the Foxes in 
1982. 


□ Dublin. Ohio: The second 
qualifying round in the Uni- 
ted Stales amateur champion- 
ship will finish on two courses 
at MuirGeld Village today. 

The leading 64 players will 
then go on to the match-play 
stage of the event. 


DESPITE an hour spent in a 
motorway traffic jam. Hamp- 
shire Hunt branch, led by the 
Chipperfidd sisters, Romilly. 
19. and Kimberley. 16. won 
toe Pony Chib dressage cham- 
pionships at Wesion Park, 
near Telford, yesterday 
(Davina Cannon writes). 

Aided by Cherie Davies (16) 
and Melissa Smith (15), toey 
beai New Forest, who had a 
last-minute change of one 
team member, by two points. 
Last year's winners were 
Crawley and Horsham, IS 
points behind with their B 
team. Their A team did not 
hare a good day'. 

The Chipperfidd girls look 
after their own horses. North 
End and Chagall, at a yard at 
Thurslev. Surrey’, and are 
taught by toe owner. Sarah 
Dwyer. Romilly. who finished 
individually second, goes to 
Sussex University in October 
to study psychology, and is 
also a competitor at young 
rider level in hurse trials 
Kimberley’, who finished as 
sixth individual, is still at 
school. 

Taking part in their first 
championships were Cherie. 
who keeps her horse in her 
aunt's tiveiy yard, and Mdis- 
sa. who borrowed her broth- 
er's pony. “Absolutely 
Spiffing", when her own went 
lame a few weeks ago. Both 
are trained by Nicky Barrait, a 
winner of this contest in 1977, 
and. like toe riders, similarly 
held up on toe M40. 

Belinda Routledge, district 
commissioner of toe Hamp- 
shire branch, was delighted, 
although adding that ft was 
only part of toe effort, since she 
had three Pony Chib camps 
going on ar home. 

Twenty-six teams from Eng- 
land. Scotland. Ireland and 
Wales took part with 137 
horses. Today there wfll be a 
further 100-phis riders con- 
testing the show jumping 
championship. The event is 
sponsored by Champion 
Equestrian Helmets. 

RESULTS: Teams - 1, Hampstwe Hum 
B ranch, B50. 2. New Feres:. B48: 3. Crawley 
and Horsham. 638. 4. Cartcw Orej. B32 
Incfivtdual winners: A. S Taytor (Cots- 
wolds). B. S Hammond |NW Kanl; C. N 


Clarice (CartowHunt). D. N Worley fluMon 
Hurt) Dressage championships 


Vale 


tenter award: G Bern toy (N Wansncks) 
Boys' award: C Befcon IWbtanghami 


Junior mourned games final: Berwyn and 
Dee Senior mourned games final: North 
WarwKte 


HOCKEY 


VUQHT. Hofiand: Junior European 


:Gennarw3,SpBJnO.' 
ft: Sooilandl, Hofiand ft 


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Wright has chance to impress Taylor 


Prolific Oldham 


attack provides 
test for Arsenal 


By Louise Taylor 


JUST what will Arsenal’s de- 
fence make of Oldham Athlet- 
ic at Highbuiy tonight? Not 
only do Oldham arrive fresh 
from last Saturday's 5-3 win 
against Nottingham Forest, 
but Arsenal conceded four 
goals to Norwich City in their 
only other home Premier 
League fixture. 

WHh Oldham's rearguard 
also inclined to be erratic, it 
could be a fruitful evening for 
forwards. Ian Wright of 
Arsenal, the leading scorer in 
the first division last season, 
will be aware that Graham 
Taylor, the England manager, 
is due to name his squad for 
the international in Spain 
next week. 

So will Paul Merson who, 
despite a fine by his dub for 
not being fit enough, is re- 
garded by some as a potential 
solution to Taylor's national 
traumas. Merson is restored to 
the London side in place of 
Anders Limpar, who is on 
duty with Sweden. John Jen- 
sen is also absent with 
Denmark 

Ian Olney, a summer sign- 
ing from Aston Villa, makes 
his first appearance for Old- 
ham after completing a sus- 
pension carried over Grom last 
season, and he could well be 
marked by Colin Pales. Pates 
has spent most of his two years 
at Arsenal in the reserves, but 
did well when deputising for 
the injured Steve Bould in 


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ue in central defence. 

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not stop scoring in his attack- 
ing days for England Under- 
21 and the Norwich City new 
boy has started in much the 
same vein at Carrow Road. He 
would doubdess love to further 
boost his tally at Manchester 
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recent days when Robins wore 
the red and white of 
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to contend with Britain's joint 
costliest defenders, Keith 
Curie, and Terry Phelan. The 
latter wQI make his debut for 
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million transfer from 
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for Hearts battle 


THERE is every likelihood 
that at least one of the three 
Skol Cup quarter-final ties to 
be played tonight wfll require 
extra time or even a penalty 
shoot-out before a winner 
emerges (Roddy Forsyth 
writes). The meetings of 
Dundee United and Rangers 
at Tannadice and Heart of 
Midlothian and Celtic at 
Tynecastle offer the prospect of 


very dose contests 
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opening fixture of the league 
season on August 1 when 
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confusion about the newly 
introduced limits on passes 
back to the goalkeeper. 

For Celtic die tie is the latest 
in a particularly demanding 
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seen the Farkhead team play 
Aberdeen, Hearts and Rang- 
ers away from home and 
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Despite this arduous opening, 
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being tire only undefeated ride 
in Scotland. 

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won at City for 12 years but 
one man keen to change that 
is Gary Megson. who 
swapped Maine Road for 
Carrow Road in a free transfer 
this summer. 

Coventry were hardly the 
team the creators of the Pre- 
mier League had in mind as< 
early season pacesetters, but 
Bobby Gould's side are aim- 
ing for their fourth successive 
win, at home to Queen's Park 
Rangers. Gould, who was 
dismissed by West Bromwich 
Albion last season, predicted 
that the diampionsnip could 
be contested by one of the less 
fashionable dubs. 

“I do not see any reason why 
ourselves, QPR or Norwich, 
should not come out of the 
pack and slay the distance. I 
just hope it will be us. r don't 
see why we cannot stay al the 
top. 

“Coming from Coventry, as 
Ido, 1 have got to feel proud at 
having taken the dub to the 
top. of the league for only tire 
second time in their history. 
Even my mother has rung up 
to say well done." 

Gould — the manager wbo 
took Phelan to Wimbledon for 
a nominal fee from Swansea 
City — said that the new back- 
pass law coukl only assist the 
less-fended dubs. “The whole 
thing has been thrown wide 
open by the rule because it 
enables lanw of an inferior 
quality to put pressure on the 

S ' ‘on and stop them 
j from the back." 
Blackburn Rovers, who visit 
Coventry on Saturday, aim to 
continue their bright start to 
Premier League life at Chel- 
sea. Tito Rovers especially 
keen to impress will be Alan 
Shearer arid Stuart Ripley. 
Shearer wants to score the 
goals whidi will confirm him- 
self, ahead of Arsenal's 
Wright, as die successor to 
Gary Lineker for England. 

Ripley, meanwhile, would 
like a slice of the England 
action. The paoey and power- 
ful winger has made an enor- 
mous impact at Ewood Park 
since his EU dose-season 
transfer from Middlesbrough 
and must be in contention for 
a chance in die England rote 
variously occupied by Chris 
Waddle and John Barnes. 
Dennis Wise returns to an 
injury-troubled Chelsea side 
after suspension. 

Like Blackburn. Derby 
County are big spenders, but 
they are still seeking their 
initial first-division win, some- 
thing they hope to achieve at 
Leicester City — narrowly 
beaten by Blackburn in last 
May’s promotion play-off — 
tonight. 



Strike force; Wright, of Arsenal, is a leading candidate to succeed Lineker as Etigfauocfepotent forw ar d 


Dublin seizes his chance 


WHEN John Beck persuaded 
Manchester United to pay El 
million for Dion Dublin earli- 
er this summer, the general 
consensus was that the Cam- 
bridge United manager had 
done rather well for his chib. 

Not best pleased at being 
dismissed as a panic buy on 
the part of Alex Ferguson, the 
Manchester United manager. 
Dublin quickly retorted with 
United's vanning goal in a 1-0 
victory in the Premier League 
at Southampton on Monday 
night 

Dublin repaid the first in- 
stalment of Ferguson’S invest 1 
ment by ride-footing the ball 
home from four yards in the 
final minute of his first fell 
game. It may not have been 
anywhere near as spectacular 
as the goals which were 
featured on a video of the 
player which Beck compiled 
and sent to Ferguson, tut it 
was sufficient to provide Uni- 
ted with their first win in the 
Premier League. 

“We have not had someone 
like Dion for years, not since 
Joe Jordan,’’ a relieved Fergu- 
son said afterwards. “Apart 
from his goal Dion linked up 
web. He is a different type of 


player who gives us options. 
What decided us on Dion was 
the video of his goals for 
Cambridge. I have said that I 
defy anyone, to show, me a 
better variety of goals than the 
ones he scored. They made me 
situp.” . 

Dublin. 23, who scored 73 
goals in three seasons as 
Cambridge dimbed from the 
fourth to the second division, 
said; The goal should help 
me settle down and relax. I 
was very nervous but I get fihe 
dial before every game. I need 
nervous energy to get me 
through the first 15 minutes 
and then your fitness takes 
over., ■ . 

“But the £1 million tag does - 
not bother me. f just want to 
go out and play football to the 
best of ray ability. It was a bit 
of hick when the ball broke to 
me, bat my only thought was 
that if I stock it away it’s the 
first win of the season and we 
needed that” 

Ferguson, who had con- 
fined Dublin to wanning the 
sub st i t utes bench for United’s 


first three games, bought the 
player only after fowng to 


player only after feiting to 
sign Alan Shearer from 
Southampton. 


.It however, Dublin — who 
was rejected by Leicester City 
before foiling to make the 
grade at Norwich City — 
continues in sfmilar vein. Beck 
will not be the only man to 
have his name prefixed with 
tire word shrewd when the 
deal is discussed. 

Dublin's goal apart; it was 
anything bat a night to re- 
member at The DdL Played 
in pouring rain, only the most 
committed of BSkyB's viewers 
would have kept their tele- 
vision sets switched on long 
enough to see'Dibn do what 
he does best 

□ John Toshadc. the former 
Wates and Liverpool forward, 
will come out of retirement to 
play with the Swansea team be 
guided to the top of the first 
division ten years ago to fund 
food and medical aid for the 
town of Mostar, in Bosnia. 

Toshadt, the manager of 
Real Soaedad, in Spain, will 
appear on Tuesday, Septem- 
ber 8, against the present 
Swansea City team in a game 
organised, by. Dzemal 
Hadriabdic. the Yugoslavian 
international fell back who 
played in the first division 
side. 


Poor start 
for BSfyB 
initiative 


August 16 — an increase of 
130,000 on tiie figure for the 
Charity S hield match between 
Leeds United and Liverpool 

BBC TVs Match of the Day 
h ig h l i ght s attracted 5.6 mil- 
lion for the Charity Shield. 
Figures for their first Premier 
League programme will be 
revealed today. . 

BSkyB has invested £304 
miQJoiv in the rights to cover 
the Premier League over the 
next five years. A spokesman 
said: “It is still very early days 
and viewing figures will in- 
crease as the season progresses 
and more people buy dishes.” 


FA charges Dane on case of feigning injury 


By Louise Tayuor 


GORDON Dune yesterday 
became the first professional 
footballer to be charged with 
misconduct for allegedly 
feigning injury by the Football 
Association (FA). The Totten- 
ham Hotspur and Scotland 
forward is accused of attempt- 
ing to get Coventry’s Andy 
Pearce sent off by pretending 
that Pearce had butted him 
when the teams met for a 
Premier League match at 
White Hart Lane last week. 

The match referee, Dennot 
Gallagher, reported the inci- 
dent to the FA and it has 


decided that there is a case to 
answer. Dime has 14 days to 
reply to the charge ana is 
expected to request a hearing. 


bringing a video, 
which he claims wfll dear hira. 

If found guBty. the player, 
who cost Tottenham £2.2 mil- 
lion when he left Chelsea at 
the aid of last season, feces a 


hefty fine, lengthy suspension 
and a shir on his character. 


and a shir on his charaaer. 

David Bloomfield, tire FA 
press officer, said yesterday: 
“The charge is being brought 
on the basis of the referee's 
official report of the incident 
The allegation that the player 
feigned mjmy is the first case 


of that nature we have dealt 
with." 

Tottenham were furious 
when, two days later, the 
referee was quoted in national 
newspapers, saying that Durie 
had fabricated the outi to have 
Pearce dismissed- 

The dub made an official 
complaint to the FA Premier 
League, criticising the referee 
and Doug Livermore, the 
Tottenham team manager, 
said: “We have looked at the 
video and it is dear that Pearce 
made contact with Durie.” 

Derby police yesterday cart- 
finned that David Speedie. 
tiie Southampton forward, is 


to be charged with assaulting 
a supporter after a match at 
Derby County last May. 

The former S cottish interna- 
tional 32, had been playing 
for Blackburn Rovers in a 
promotion play-off when, after 
the final whistle, he was al- 
leged to have kicked a Derby 
supporter up the backside. 

Mark Nik, the Middles- 
brough physiotherapist, has 
also been charged with mis- 
conduct by the FA for alleged- 
ly “man-handling" a lines- 
man at ' Highneld , Road 
during Middlesbrough’s 
opening Premier League fix- 
ture against Coventry. 



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By Chris Smart 


CHRIS Evans, tithe known 
outride tire southern region 
where be regularity competes 
ia pro-am tournaments, en- 
joyed his biggest pay day 

when he won the Casey 
Crfnfarm Welsh p rofe ssional 
«df championship in fine style 


Leading by two strokes over- 
night after a splendid one- 
under-par 71, Evans. 25. the 
head at Prince’s 

Chdk Sandwich, repeated that 
score yesterday for a 36-hole 
total erf 142 and a three-stroke 
victory over the forma- Walker 
Ciip player, Neil Roderick. 
The onetime Welsh world cup 

[fetter stroke badHrt third 
spot: 

Evans, who admitted not 


even wSen news filtered 
through that Roderick, twice 
whiner of the Welsh stroke 
play tide, had bodied the 
opening two holes. 

Bat Evans, to his credit, kept 
gomg steadily and at one time 
extended his overnight advan- 
tage to six strokes and it then 
looked as though he might 
coast id one of the biggest 
successes in the history of this 
chamjnonship. 


Howc ver. there was a slight 
dkation that he might be 


JUST over half a million 
people watched tire first five 
Premier. League match be- 
tween Nottin^bamForest arid 
Liverpool -r bit Sky Tele- 
vision are stffl claiming that 
their football launch has been 
a success. 

Figures issued .by the Broad- 
casters Audience Research 
Board (BARB) yesterday show 
that an average of 520,000 
watched the game on Sunday. 


indication that he might be 
about to Jose las nave when 
he shnriped to a couple of 
bogeys in a row early on the 
inward halt But he got his act 
to gether again and a birdie 
threeat the difficult 1 5th hde 
seemedtopot the issue beyond 
doubt A steady finish saw him 
home with plenty of breathing 
space. 

T jnst cannot believe it. all 
theyears of struggle have been 
worthwhile,” Evans, from 
Wrexham who has been at 
PrinceVsince 1988, said. 

. Partly, he attributed his 
success to tiie feet . feat 
Ashbumham is way similar to 
.Prince's in difficulty of links 
and the conditions prevailing 
over the past couple of days are 
similar to those be regularly 
encounters in Kent 

Any hopes Paul Mayo had 
of securing his fluid successive 
tide were dashed when he took 
4J to the tom. Kim Dabson. 
jumped some 25 places with a 
dosing 73, while Phil Parian, 
the former British amateur 
champion, also had a 73 and 
finished in joint-fourth 


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Scottish Super League sails into troubled waters 


By Roddy Forsyth 


PROSPECTIVE members of 
the Scottish Super league 
must be casting envious 
glances at their Premier * 
League neighbours sooth of 
the border. On the day that 
the breakaway League admit- 
ted two more dubs aiKl reject- 
ed two others, it ran into an 
obstacle that could delay it 
reaching its first season, a 
hurdle the English Premier 
League never had to negoti- 
ate. 

After weeks in which the 
Scottish l eagae and the grow- 
jng number of rebels had 
traded nto tennis 

balls; the Scottish Football 
Association yesterday joined 
ttefray.lt said, simply, that it 
would • not enter info any 
dialogue with dubs support* 


ing the planned breakaway 
because it considers it not to 
be a properiyconstituted 
football league. It thus, unm- 
ediatefy. posed the breakaway 
group — who hope to be in 
business next season — with a 

serious problem. 

None of the leading dubs 
wants to establish the new 
league without SFA support, 
which is essential for partici- 
pation in European football 
Since missing their forays on 
to the continent woaki be, for 
all the leading dufas^unttenk- 
abfe they mast ensure that 
when tiie Super League does 
eventually get under way, it 
win be with SFA support 

In England, in contrast, the 


blueprint drawn up by the 
Football Association- Its m- 
trodaction was refetivdy 


painless. Things will clearly, 
not be quite as smooth in 
Scotland. 

On Monday, the SFA execu- 
tive committee met to discuss 
a request from Wallace Mer- 
cer, the chairman of Heart of 
Midlothian acting in his ca- 
pacity as chairman of the 
Super League, asking the 
national association formally 
to recognise the breakaway 
movement 

Yesterday. Jim Fany. the 
seoetaiyof die SFA, respond- 
ed. saying: The principle 
which has been adopted is 
that it is necessary for the 
association to approve any 
league or cdmhmation crf 
dubs. The Scottish Super 
League at this stage is not an 
approved league; it does not 
exist, it is not an approved 
combination of dubs. There- 


fore, it Is not an authorised 
football body and anyone 
inducing another member 
dub of tiie SFA to join such a 
body would be m breach of 
Artide 73 of the national 
association.” 

The SFA’s announcement 
fpBowsa Mocking manouevre 
earlier, this month fay the 
Scottish Football League; 
which declared. that the let- 
tersof resignation received by 
the breakaway dubs — 
Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, 
United, Heart of Midlothian, ’ 
Hibernian, Motherwell; 
Rangers and St Johnstone — 
were invalid because they 
were undated, This^ objection 
by theSFL ted the SFA to say 
the Super League ^ had not 
been properly constituted. 

• However, the . embryonic 
Super League dbose yesterday 


to announce that it had 
agreed to accept membership 
applications from Dunferm- 
lme Athletic and PmtickThfe- 
tle. Two more applications, 
from Airririeoiuans and 
Dundee wwre rejected, al- 
though it was stressed flat 
the League hoped that both 
clubs would by again in. the 
foreseeable future. 

The statement by the Scot- 
tfe* Super League also con- 
foffied a significant gesture 
towards conciliation with the 
Scottish Football League. It 

JS 5 “fro® 

essential dndogoe, we are 
contacting the Scottish Foot- 
tefi League today to infann 
mem that the ten dub chair- 
men who represent the dnbs 
m the Super. League wish to 
meet with the Scottish Fbot- 
wfi League as a matter of • 


ureency. *008 is a positive step 

“d we look forward to a 
nuitful mating" 

There was no official mriy 
prim the Scottish Football 
league yesterday, but it is 
ecpected that. Eke the SFA. 
me offic ial body will not 
owu n tm rkate with a body it 
uoes not recognise. It is likely, 
frowwm that the ten date- 


... . — T ” “ uiccumg in 

capacity as representa- 
frag of member chib s 
In addition, an extraon&l 

SLS 0 ? 81 me «mg of 

League will 
be convened shortly, probably 
oea mouth. ;«t which a nro- 
pos al tofoiiufnprdiviskipsof 

ton teams wOL be debated. It 

US this romnne-kf - — - ■ a l.. 


. i v - iZ-V .’.. - .V f ri“".L7iJTO3’.Wrae257' — V 


*5? existing member 
oBecs tiie most 
Bkdy chance of compromise. 



Paris: Yugoslavia’s World 
Cup football qualifying match 
against Iceland in Reykjavik 
next Wednesday has been 
postponed. ,4 

; It is expected that Yugosla-™ 
via will be expelled from the 
World Cup competition on 
August 31 under United Na- 
tions resolution 757, which 
declared an embargo on con- 
tact with Yugoslavia following 
the civil war there. 

If that happens* group five. 
m which Yug oslav ia axe 
placed, would be reduced to 
five nations, Russia, Greece, 
Hungary, Iceland and Lux- 
embourg, with two trams 
Qualifying for the finals in the 
United States in 1 994. 

Y ugoslavia were excluded 
from the European champion- 
ship in June. (AFP) 


T» 










WOMEN p5 


Jeanette 
Winterson: 
an idealist 
about love 







LIFE & TIMES 


HOMES' p7 


Under the 
hammer 
repossessed 
houses 


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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1 992 


OPENING LINES: the first chapters of some of this autumn’s strongest Booker contenders 

Pilgrim through a barren land 



P.D. James's latest novel The Children of Men is set in 
a future England where human infertility has spread 
like a plague. In the third in our series, the central 
character, Theodore Faron, introduces himself. . . 


GRAHAME BAKER 


FRIDAY l JANUARY 2021 


E arly this morning, 1 Jan- 
uary 202 1 , three minutes 
after midnight, the last 
human being to be bom 
on earth was killed in a pub brawl 
in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged 
twenty-five years two months and 
twelve days. If the first reports are to 
be believed, Joseph Ricardo died as 
he had lived. The distinction, if one 
can call h that, of being the last 
human whotse birth was officially 
recorded, unrelated as it was to any 
personal virtue or talent, had 
always been difficult for him to 
handle. And new he is dead. 

The news was given to us here in 
Britain on the nine o'dock pro- 
gramme of the State Radio Service 
and I heard it fortuitously. I had 
settled down to begin this diary of 
the last half of my life when I 
noticed the time and thought I 
might as well catch the headlines to 
the nine o'clock bulletin. Ricardo’s 
death was the last item mentioned, 
and then only briefly, a couple of 
sentences delivered without em- 
phasis in the newscaster's carefully 
non-committal voice. But it seemed 
to me. hearing it that it was a small 
additional justification for begin- 
ning the diary today; the first day of 
a new year and my fiftieth birthday. 
As a child I had always liked that 
distinction, despite die inconve- 
nience of having it follow Christ- 
mas too quiddy so that one present 
— it never seemed notably superior 
to the one I would in any case have 
received — had to do for both 
celebrations. 

As I begin writing, the three 
events, the New Year, my fiftieth 
birthday. Ricardo’s death, hardly 
justify sullying the Srstpages of this 
new loose-leaf notebook. Buf I shall 
continue, one small additional 
defence against personal accidie. If 
there is nothing to record, I shall 
record the nothingness and then if, 
and when. I reach old age — as 
mast of us can expect to, we have 
become experts at prolonging life— 
I shall open one of my tins of 
hoarded matches and light my 
small personal bonfire of vanities. I 
have no intention of leaving the 
diary as a record of one man's last 
years. Even in my mast egotistical 
moods l am not as self-deceiving as 
that. What possible interest can 
there be in the joumaJ of Theodore 
Faron, Doctor of PhiJosophy, Fel- 
low of Merton College in the 
University of Oxford, historian of 
the Victorian age. divorced, child- 
less, solitary, whose only claim to 
notice is that he is cousin to Xan 
LyppiatL the dictator and Warden 
of England. 

No additional personal record is. 
m any case, necessary. All over the 
world nation stales are preparing to 
store their testimony for the posteri- 
ty which we can still occasionally 
convince ourselves may follow us, 
those creatures from another planet 
who may land on this green 
wilderness and ask what kind of 
sentient life once inhabited it We 
are storing our books and manu- 
scripts. the great paintings, the 
musical scores and instruments, the 
artefacts. The world's greatest li- 
braries wfll in forty years’ time at 
most be darkened and sealed. The 
buildings, those that are still stand- 
ing. will speak for themselves. The 


soft stone of Oxford is unlikely to 
survive more than a couple of 
centuries. Already the University is 
arguing about whether it is worth 
refacing the crumbling Sheldon- 
ian. 

But I like to think of those 
mythical creatures landing in St 
Peter’s Square and entering the 
great Basilica, silent and echoing 
under the centuries of dust Will 
they realize that this was once the 
greatest of man’s temples to one of 
his many gods? Will they be curious 
about his nature, this deity who was 
worshipped with such pomp and 
splendour, intrigued by the mystery 
of his symbol at once so simple, the 
two crossed sticks ubiquitous in 
nature, yet laden with gold, glori- 
ously jewelled and adorned? Or will 
their values and their thought 
processes be so alien to ours that 
nothing of awe or wonder will be 
able to touch them? But despite the 
discovery— in 1997 was it?— of a 
planet which the astronomers told 
us could support life, few of us really 
believe that they will come. They 
must be there. It is surely unreason- 
able to credit that only one small 
star in the immensity of the 
universe is capable of developing 
and supporting intelligent life. But 
we shall not get to them and they 
wfll not come to us. 


W e are outraged and 
demoralized less by 
the impending end of 
our spedes. less even 
by our inability to prevent it, than 
by our failure to discover the cause. 
Western science and Western medi- 
cine haven’t prepared us for the 
magnitude and humiliation of tills 
ultimate failure. There have been 
many diseases which have been 
difficult to diagnose or cure and 
one which almost depopulated two 
continents before it spent itself. But 
we have always in the end been able 
to explain why. We have given 
names to the viruses and germs 
which, even today, take possession 
of us. much to our chagrin since it 
seems a personal affront that they 
should still assail us, like old 
enemies who keep up the skirmish 
and bring down the occasional 
victim when their victory is assured. 

Western science has been our 
god- In the variety of its power it 
has preserved, comforted, healed, 
wanned, fed and entertained us 
■ and we have felt free to criticize and 
occasionally reject it as men have 
always rejected their gods, but in 
the knowledge that despite our 
apostasy, this deily. our creature 
and our slave, would still provide 
for us: the anaesthetic for the pain, 
the spare heart, the new lung, the 
antibiotic, the moving wheels and 
the moving pictures. The light will 
always come on when we press the 
switch and if it doesn't we can find 
out why. Science was never a 
subject I was at home with. I 
understood little of it at school and 1 
understand little more now that 
I’m fifty. Yet it has been my god too, 
even if its achievements are incom- 
prehensible to me. and I share the 
universal disillusionment of those 
whose god has died. 

1 can dearly remember the 
confident words of one biologist 
spoken when it had finally become 
apparent that nowhere in the whole 
world was there a pregnant 


woman: “It may take us some time 
to discover the cause of this appar- 
ent universal infertility.’’ We have 
had twenty-five years and we no 
longer even expect to succeed. Like 
a lecherous stud suddenly stricken 
with impotence, we are humiliated 
at the very heart of our faith in 
ourselves. For all our knowledge, 
our intelligence, our power, we can 
no longer do what the animals do 
without thought. No wonder we 
both worship and resent them. 

In our universal bereavement, 
like grieving parents, we have put 
away all painful reminders of our 
loss. The children's playgrounds in 
our parks have been dismantled. 
For the first twelve years after 
Omega the swings were looped up 
and secured, the slides and climb- 
ing frames left unpainted. Now 
they have finally gone and the 
asphalt playgrounds have been 
grassed over or sown with flowers 
like small mass graves. The toys 
have been burnt, except for the 
dolls which have become for some 
half-demented women a substitute 
for children. The schools, long 
dosed have been boarded up or 
used as centres for adult education. 
The children’s books have been 
systematically removed from our 
libraries. Only on tape and records 
do we now hear the voices of 
children, only on film or on 
television programmes do we see 
the bright, moving images of the 
young. Some find them unbearable 
to watch but most feed on them as 
they might a drug. 

The children born in the year 
1995 are called Omegas. No 
generation has been more studied 
more examined more agonized 
over, more valued or more in- 
dulged. They were our hope, our 
promise of salvation and they were 
— they still are — exceptionally 
beautiful. U sometimes seems that 
nature in her ultimate unkindness 
wished to emphasize what we have 
lost The boys, men of twenty- five 
now, are strong, individualistic; 
intelligent and handsome as young 
gods. Many are also cruel, arrogant 
and violent and this has been 
found to be true of Omegas all over 
the world. The dreaded gangs of 
the Painted Faces who drive round 
the countryside at night to ambush 
and terrorize unwary travellers are 
rumoured to be Omegas. It is said 
that when an Omega is caught he is 
offered immunity if he is prepared 
to join the State Security Police, 
whereas the rest of the gang, no 
more guilty, are sent on conviction 
to the Penal Colony on the Isle of 
Man, to which all those convicted 
of crimes of violence, burglary or 
repeated theft are now banished. 
But if we are unwise to drive 
unprotected on our crumbling sec- 
ondary roads, our towns and cities 
are safe, crime effectively dealt with 
at last by a return to the deportation 
polity of the nineteenth century. 




T he university ■ colleague 
who takes Omega with 
total calmness is Daniel 
Hurstfield. but then, as 
professor of statistical palaeont- 
ology. his mind ranges over a 
different dimension of time. Like 
the God of the old hymn, a 
thousand ages in his sight are like 
an evening gone. Sitting beside me 
at a College feast in the year when I 


was wine secretary, he said: “Wljat 
are you giving us with the grouse. 
Faron? That should do very nicely. 
Sometimes 1 fear you are a little 
inclined to be too adventurous. And 
I hope you have established a 
rational drinking-up programme. 
It would distress me, on my 
deathbed, to contemplate the bar- 
barian Omegas making free with 
the College cellar." 

I said: “We’re thinking about it 
We’re still laying down, of course, 
but on a reduced scale. Some of my 
colleagues feel we are being too 
pessimistic.” 

“Oh, 1 don't think you can 
possibly be too pessimistic. I can’t 
think why you all seem so surprised 
at Omega. After all. of the liour 
billion life forms which have existed 
on this planet, three billion, nine 
hundred and sixty million are now 
extinct We don’t know why. Some 


by wanton extinction, some through 
natural catastrophe, some de- 
stroyed by meteorites and asteroids. 
In the light of these mass extinc- 
tions it really does seem unreason- 
able to suppose that Homo sapiens 
should be exempt Our spedes will 
have been one of the shortest lived 
of all. a mere blink, you may say. in 
the eye of time. Omega apart, there 
may well be an asteroid of sufficient 
size to destroy this planet on its way 
to us now.” 

He began loudly to masticate his 
grouse as if the prospect afforded 
him the liveliest satisfaction. 

O PD James 1992 

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The lost world at one’s fingertips 


I have never lingered in cosmet- 
ics halls. In faa. 1 have never 
really understood what they 
are for. Why do they invariably lurk 
at the entrance of department 
stores, blocking one’s progress to 
the real business inside? Is it a 
subtle fumigation process? Or is the 
idea to soften you up? The luxuriant 
chrome and lights, the shrill excit- 
ing perfumes, the gallons of 
moisturiser (in tiny pots] — I figure 
that this sensual riot is designed to 
trip up the women, and remind 
them that shopping is basically self- 
flauciy and treats. By the time you 
actually buy something, you see, 
you feel so madly feminine that you 
shell out wildly for an extra tube of 
bath seal an L . 

But I am only guessing, because 
personally 1 always draw a deep 
breath at the threshold to the shop, 
take a last memorising look at my 
list rDraino; Cat-flap accessories: 

, Something for getting Riben? 
stains out of sofa") and then wiffie 
quickly and invisibly between the 
Itttle counters, tacking athwart this 
alien sea of feminine binkeiy with 
my eyes half-dosed against the 
unaccustomed glamour of it all. If 1 
pause nervously to examine a 
lipstick, and a lady asks “Can I hdp 
you?” I freeze, and then scuttle 
sharpish to the lifts. 


But suddenly, a few weeks ago. I 
felt an urge to paint my fingernails. 
It was weird and unaccountable. 
One minute I was quite normal 
and stable, attempting to play a 
well-regulated game of hide and 
seek with cats who can’t (or won't) 
count to 20. 

And the next 1 was overtaken by 
an access of femininity, humming 
“1 Enjoy Being a Girt" with brio, 
and breezing into cosmetics halls 
demanding a range of nail colours 
and offering to trade unwanted cat- 
nap accessories by way of payment. 
Funny how fife can change. 

Single life suddenly looked quite 
different, you see: I caught a glimpse 
of another world, originating in the 
sort of TV advertisement where pink 
gauze curtains billow sensuously in a 
boudoir full of white light and a 
woman with fantastic hair pampers 
herself with a beauty product (or 
tampons). Most people probably 
regard nail varnish as either func- 
tional or tacky, but to me it acquired 
the force of revelation. Previously the 
idea of pampering myself meant 
watching the EastEnders omnibus 
when I hud already seen both 
episodes in the week. But now it 
meant inhabiting an aura of soli- 
tary voluptuousness, spending 
whole yummy evenings watching 
paint dry. 


SINGLE LIFE 

Lynne Truss on the 
siren call of the 
cosmetic counters 




Now. the interesting thing about 
nail polish is that it comes without 
instructions. Did you know this? 
This was my first setback, really, 
and it was one from which I never 
properly recovered. The other inter- 
esting thing is that nail polish 
remover, if you splash it about too 
liberally, removes polish quite in- 
discriminately — from your best 
sandals, for example, and your 


chest of drawers. Also, it is not a 
good idea to put used cotton buds, 
soaked with nail polish remover, 
directly on a mahogany dining- 
table. because not only does the 
surface mysteriously acquire pits 
and scars, but the lacerations have 
white hair growing out of them, 
which won’t come off again, ever. 

Within minutes of starting my 
new regime, I had run up damages 
to an approximate replacement 
value Of £1,200. But T was not 
down-hearted I had applied a 
transparent goo of base-coat to all 
of my fingernails (including the 
right-hand ones, which were tricky) 
and was now ready to drink 
sherbet eat Turkish delight' and 
watch an American mini-series 
until the next stage. “I'm strictly a 
female female.” 1 sang. “Da da 
dum di da Dum de dee." I picked 
up the remote, control from the 
carpet and was surprised to discov- 
er that a layer of speckled gunk had 
attached itself to all the nails that 
had come in contact with the floor. 
Spit Peering at the other hand 
(which looked OK), I cautiously 
tapped all the nails with a finger to 
check they were dry. They weren’t 

Three hours - later my fifth at- 
tempt at a base-coat was almost dry, 
but I was feeling strangely de- 
tached from my surroundings. 


■ because I had just spent a whole 
- evening not usin® my fingers. 
Every impulse to pick up a tissue, or 
stroke the cat, or wipe hair from ray 
eyes had been followed once (with 
disastrous results) and thereafter 
strenuously denied. At one point, 
the phone had rung, and after a 
period of whimpering with indeci- 
sion 1 had answered it by picking 
up the receiver between my elbows 
and then dropping it on the desk, 
in a manner reminiscent of thriller 
heroines tied to kitchen chairs. 
."Heflo?" it said faintly from the 
desktop. “Help!" I yelled, kneeling 
beside the receiver, and waggling 
my fingers like a madwoman. 
“Hdlo?” it said again, and went 
dead. 

Eventually I took the whole lot off 
again, partly because toe removal 
process was the only one 1 was good 
• at, partly because I realised that 
novice nail-painting is not some- 
thing to be attempted alone, after 
all. U requires the attendance of 
slaves. I did a swift impression of 
Lady Macbeth (damned spot, and 
all that), and went to bed. And there 
I dreamed of waltzing through, 
bright cosmetics halls, dressed in 
pink gauze, carrying bags and bags 
of lovely self-indulgent stuff for 
getting Ribena stains out of the 
sofa. 


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YOLANT A AND THE NUTCRACKER: 
FoUewinq ihe triumph of hct opera 7>w 
Qumo of Spates. Tch*k<*sJ<y was 

cofiniiiswoned by ttietm penal Theatre. 

Petersburg to wore two ane-aa 
pieces, an opera and a batet. tolanra 
and 77ie Nutcracker were the resulL 
This new pnWucbon by Mantew 
Bourne's mnovjln* contetnpcrrafy 
dance company Adventures m Motion 
Pictures, rs o( the fnbvai's 
htghliqhb Sung m Engfcsti in a new 
translation by David Lloyd- Jones. 

King's Theatre. Leuen Street. 7pm 

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: 

A nch programme features Berlioz's 
haunting song cycle Les AfuiCs D'Efc. 
Tchaikovsky's Suile No4 m G. 
"Mozartiana". and Schoenberg's 
Verttine Nxtti te defini we sta temem 
on decadent rnmantmyn. 

Usher Han. Lothian Road. 7. 30pm 


HIS MAJESTY: Richmond's Orange 
Tree Theatre present Barker's prevwusfy 

unperformed ptev on monarchy, 
democracy and abdication. 

St Bride's Centre. Orwell Theatre. 
Tonight-Sat. 7 30pm Mats today. Sat 
2.30pm 


BENJAMIN FRITH: In the Test of two 


late night concerts looking at 
Beethoven's most demantfinq and 
intricate p who muse, the pianist tackles 
die massive DiabeK Variations. 

Usher Had. Lothian Road. 10.30pm 


Edinburgh kmematJonal Festival 

(Bo* office 03 1-225-5756) 


EDINBURGH FRINGE 


ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN 
ANARCHIST: Events In Mian. 1 969 
inspired Dario Fo’s play about die 
sudden death of a polue suspect and its 
subsequent cover up. but Exacmg 
Theatre Company bring a modernised. 
English thane ro bear on Its new 
production of thsbitmg political 
comedy 


B ACAPULCO: Steven Berkoff 
svvatting-flies in a Mexican hotel whle 
working on a Rambo Urn. Absorbing 
character stuefes 

King's Head. 115 Upper Street, N1 
(071-226-1 916). Tues-Sat, 8pm. mats 
Sat Sun. 330pm. 


□ DEATH AND TTS MAIDEN: Anel 
Dorfman's scorching psychological 
drama on the tongmg for revenge. 
Penny Down*. Dareiy Webb ana Hugh 
Ross maLe up the new cast 
Duka of YatVa. St Martin's lane, 
WC2 (071-336 51221 Mon-Sat 8pm. 
mats Ttrjn, 3pm, Sat 4pfn. 120mm. 


□ GRAND HOTEL Musical barley 
sugar Berlin in the Twenties. 
Sentimental, American, entertaining. 
Dominion. Tottenhan Court Road, 
W1 (071-580 95621. Mon-Sat 8pm. 
mats Thurs. Sat 2.30pm. IZDmns 


□ HUSK Troubled lefties and a naked, 
barking youth inhabit April De Angela's 
quiiky play: onJv a part success. 

Royal Court SJoane Square. 5W1 
(071-730 17451 Mon-Sat 8pm. mat 
Sat 4pm i30mre. 


n ROM A JACK TO A KING: Witty 
and styish verson of Macbeth's efimb t 


and stylah version of Macbeth's dbnb to 
the too, set tn the murid of rock bands 
and packed with Sixties songs. 
Ambassadors, West Street London 
WC2 (071-836 61 1IJ Mon-Thu*. 
8.15pm, Fn and Sat 530pm and 
8 30pm 120m ms. 


B LADY, BE GOODI: Ian Talbot's 
admirable staging of the Goshwire' 
fonous song and dance show. Bernard 
Cribbins plays a comic lawyer. 

Open Ah, Regent's Park. NW1 (071 - 
486 243 1) Tortight-Fri. 8pm, mat today. 
230pm. IbSmms. 


□ A MIDSUMMER NOTTS DREAM; 
Acted m a pool of mud, Robert Lepage's 
production is tong and murky but 
irradiated with magical images. 
National (OBvter). South Bank, SE1 


(071 -92S 2252). Toraght-Sat 7.15pm. 
mats tomorrow. Sat 2pm. 145min&. 

□ MURDEH BY MSADVENTURE: 
Gerald Haper and WUkam Gaunt play 
crane writes who fall out and pit then 
wicked wits against each other run-of- 
the-tndl thriBer. 


NEW RELEASES 


♦ AUEN * (18'r Sigourney Weaver 
fights another alien infesotion in deep 
space. Punishingly drab and downbeat 
Charles S. Dutton. Charles Dance; 
director, David Finch®. 

Odeon Leicester Square (0426-915 
683). 


JERSEY GIRL (15): OndereBa from 
New Jersey tries fora Manhattan Prrvx 
Charming. Stale romantic comedy with 
a few bright moments. Jame Gertz, 
Dylan McDermott director, David 
Burton Moms 
Plaza (071-497 99991. 


LOVERS (18k In Franco’s Spain, 
Victoria Abnl derafc her lodgers 
intended marriage Excellent tale of 
mad love, experty mourned by director 
Vicente Aranda 

MGM Piccadilly (07 1-4 37 3S61) 
Screen on the HMI (071 -435 3366). 

WATERLAND (15): Jeremy Irons as the 
hstory teacher haunted by his Fen land 
childhood. Brave but failed attempt to 
film Graham Swift's complex novel. 
Curzon West End (071-439 4805) 
Chebea (071-361-3742). 


CURRENT 


* BATMAN RETURNS (12j: Quirky 
but ho-hum sequel, best when the 
spotlight fals on Michelle Pfeiffers 
electrifying Catwoman. Michael Keaton. 
Danny DeVito: director. Tim Burton. 
Empire 1071-497 9999) MGM FuBiam 
Road 107 1 -370 2636) MGM 


Haymarket 1071 -B39 1 527) MGM 
Oxford Street (071-636 03 10) MS 


Oxford Street (071-636 0310) MOW 
Trocadera (07M34 003 J)ua 
WWteteys (071-792 3332). 

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TODAY'S EVENTS 


A darty guide to arts 
and entertainment 
compiled by Sara Yeliand 


Swthside '92, jouthade Community 
Centre. 1 17 Nicholson Street Tonight- 
Sat (not Thuri. 10 20pm. Until Sept S. 


Elfin burgh Fringe Festival (Box 
office-031 -226-51 38) 


THEATRE GUIDE 


Jeremy Kingston's assessment 
of theatre showing in London 


of theatre: 


■ House full, returns only 
B Some seats available 
□ Seats at aH prices 


Vaudeville, strand. WC2 (071 -836 
9987). Mon-SaL 8pm. mats Thun, 
jZJOpm. Sat. 530pm. 120mms. 


□ THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA: 

Alfred Molina and a superb Been Atkins 
in Tennessee Wil&ams'splay on the 
effects of sexual repression Last 
performances, ends Aug 31 . 

National (Lyttel ton), South Bank. SEl 
(071-923 2252). Tonight-Sat. 7 30pm, 
mats today. Sat, 2.15pm. ISOmms. 

□ PMLADELPHIA. HERE I COMEb 
Brian FrieTs affectionate comedy of an 
Irish emgram and his carpng after 
ego. A revival to be cherished. 
Wyndham**. Chang Oroa Road. 

WC2 (07T-867 1116). Mon-Fn, 8pm. 

Sal. 8. 1 5pm. mats WedL 3pm. SaL 
5pm. 140mfrs. 


■ THE RISE AND FALL OF UTTLE 
VOICE: Terrific performance by Alison 
Steadman as the raucous slattern in Jim 
Cartwright's play about rk earns, shyness 
and hornble mothers 
National (Cottesioe), South Bank. SEl 
(071-9282252) Tonight tomorrow. 
730pm, mat tomorrow, 230pm. 
150mins 


■ SHADES: Pauline Coll Ins tom 
between her child, mum and marrfnend 
in Shaman Macdonald's daappojnting 
new plav; only sporadically absorbing. 
ABjery.St Martin’s Lane. WC2 (071 - 
867 1115). Mon-Sat. 8pm, mats Thurs. 
3pm. Sat 4pm. I20mins. 

B SOC DEGREES OF SEPARATION: 
Stockard Chameig as The nch New 
Yorker transfigured by a Wad: con 
artist In John Guam's fine play on 
human oner -dependence 
Comedy, Pan ton Street SW1 (071- 
867 1045). Mon-Sat 8pm. mats Wed, 
3pm and Sat, 4pm. 90mlns 


CINEMA GUIDE 


Geoff Brawn's assessment of 
films in London and (where 
indicated with the symbol ♦ ) 
on release across the country 


Bernard bongs disaster and |oy to the 
suburbs. Adequate famfly comedy. 
Charles Grodh, Bonnie Hum; director, 
Bnan Levant 

MGM Oxford Street (071-6360310) 
MGM Trocadera (07 1 L4 34 003 DUO 
WHtehys (071 -792 3332k 
BELLE DE JOUR f 1 87 BurtueTs 1 967 
dasne about the adventurous libido of a 
baugeoc wife (Catherine Dwieuw) 
Cod and competing in a sparking new 
pmrt Jean Sore). Michel FTccolL 
MGM Swiss Centre (071-439 4470) 
MGM Tottenham Court Road (07 1 - 
636 6148). 


THE BUTCHER’S WIFE (12k Arch 
whimsy about a New York butcher's 
danoyam wife (Demi Moore), patty 
salvaged by brfcyu lines and a genial 
cast Jeff Daniels, Mary Steerburgen. 
Director, Terry Hughes. MGM 
Trocadera 1071-434 003 I). 
CASABLANCA (UJ: Die 50th 
anniversary release of the tuft favourite, 
brllian tty written, awash with exotic 
atmosphere. Bogart Ingrid Bergman. 
Paul HenreJd. Claude Rams; director. 
NSdrael Curtiz. 

Plaaa(071-497 9399). 


♦ THE MAMBO ICINGS (15): Smartly 
mounted but simtAstic version of Oscar 
ffifuete’s novel about Cuban musioarts 
In New York. Armand Assam*, Antonio 


ENTERTAINMENTS 


ELSEWHERE 


BBC PROMS: Stoebus's Violin Concerto 
b framed by two woiks inspired by 
— Berlioz's cuncfft overture The 
ir. ndeiibiy assooated vdth Byron's 
avashbuckkng but chivalrous peale- 
hero, Conrad, and Tchaikovsky's 
Manfred Symphony, a ponran of the 
giiilt-ndden Faustian outcast, tormented 
by a lender but incestuous love, who 
eventually finds solace m death. The St 
Petersburg Philharmonic b conduaed 


THEY SHALL NOT GROW OUT: Gary 
Drabweir? new play about (he Battle of 
the Somme. Using visual imagery, 
music and modern verve-dialogue. 
Mania Productions' Youth Theatre. 
Manic Offspring, hope to reenact the 
horror and wane of the protracted 
carnage. 

Celtic Lodge. Biotfe's C lose. 
LawnmarkeL Tonight- Sat. 605pm. Until 
Sept 5. 

WHEN THE BARBAJBAN5 CAME: The 

premiere of this new play by Don Taylor 
which tefe o( the member; of a soaety 
on which a new poTrocal and oiturai 
orthodoxy has been imposed. 
Corruption, intrigue and betrayal are 
explored in a production which afeo 
seeks lo pose questions about the rate 
of theatre In relation ro broader 
cultural values 

The Festival Club, 9-1 5 Chambers 
Street Today-SaL2.20pm 
WALLACE'S HEEL: When Arthur 
Stewart steps out of his dioww to find 
an old friend swigging beer in he hotel 
room, the trouble begins. For this friend 
died three yean ago. To make matters 
worse, his dead friend also dares to be 
the spirit of the great Scottish hero 
WiBam Wallace, who has returned fuBy 
intent on setting the record straight 
Something to do with “Pan tfimertaonal 
multi-peison solipsism". 

CaJfon Centra, 121 Montgomery 
Street Tonight-Sat, 730pm. 


by Yuri Terrtrkanov.Royal Albert Halt, 
Kensington Gore. London 5W7<071- 


Kensngtan Gore. I 
323- 999817. 30pm 


AMPtUHANS: Latest Billy Roche play, 
charting change and the passing of old 
tradition in County Wedord (where 
efce?j 

The Pit. Barbican Centre. EC2 (071- 

638 8891) 

Previews hum tonight. 7.15pm. Opens 
Sept 3. 7pm Then in repertoire. 


TAMBURLAJNE THE GREATE Antony 
Sher plays die scouge of Asia <n 
Marlowe's epic drama , directed by 
Terry Hands and never before produced 
by me KSC 

Swan Thaxtxe. Waterside. Stratford- 
upon-Avon 10789 295623). Previews 
soreght and *9 this week. 7.30pm. 
Opens Sept 1, 7pm. Then n repertoire. 

OLD MACTSt DRAWINGS: The 
Ashmotean has one of die greatest 
coilecttons of Old M3Stff (frawvi^ n 
the world. Normally trty a anal 
percentage s an show, but the 
European Arts FesttaL has persuaded 

the museum to brng out some of its 
nches. The amazing selection, first seen 
m Rome last year, includes five 
MchelangefcK, five Raphaels and two 
Leonardos, as wd as works by 
Rembrandt, Rubens. DOrer, Claude, 
Watteau, Hobevi. Gainsborough and 
Rowlandson, to name only a few. Not to 
be missed. 

Ashmotean Museum. Oxford 10865 
278000) Today-5at10am-4pnrv.SunZ- 
4pm. Until October 1 1. 


□ THE SOUND OF MUSIC Nuns, 
Naas, squeaty-dean too and drops of 
golden sun: a sweet holiday from the 
realwortd With Lk Robertson and 
ChreupJier Cazenoire 
Sadler's Wei b, Rosebery Avenue, ECt 
(071-2788916). Tues-SaL 7.30pm. 
mats Tues. Diure. Sat 230pm. 
165mBtS. 


□ STRAIGHT AND NARROW: 
Nkholas LyndhursL NeJ Dagksh and 
Carmel McShany m likeable comedy 
about a doting mother's vrartes, 
notably her gay son. 

Aldwydi, AkJwych WC2 (071-836 
6404). Mon-Sat. Bpm, mats Wed, 3pm, 
SaL 5pm. 13Qmirtt. 


□ A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE: 
Phikp Prowse's tnumpharit RSC 
production. John Carfisle as a rafous 
aristocrat m Wilde's socal melodrama 
laced with wit 

Theatre Royal. Haymarket, SW1 (071- 
930 8800). Mon-SaL 7 JOprn. mats 
Wed. SaL 230pm 165mns. 


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Banderas; director, Ame Glimcher. 
MGM Oxford Street (071-636-031 0) 


♦ MY COUSIN WINY (15): 
Adventures of a novice lawyer 
defendmg a nxxder charge down 
South. Uncertain comic vehlde for Joe 
Peso, bright support from Mansa 
Tomei, Fred Guvynne. 

MGM Tottenham Court Road (071- 
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914666) ua WWteteys (071-792 
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NIGHT ON EARTH (75): five tragi- 
convc encounters in five night-time 
taxis. Uneven but amiable Jim 
Jannusdi compendun. Roberto 
Bertgnp, Gena Rowlands. Beatrice 
Dale. 

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Hollywood, directed by Robert Altman. 
Tim Robbins as the stutfio executive 
who krib a writer, plus cameos galore. 
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WAITING (15): Surrogate mother 
(Non* FtaxUinrst) awaits the birth 
sunounderi by friends Agreeable 
Australian feminist comedy. Writer - 
cfirector, Jackie McKimmie. 

National Film ThMrtro <07 1 -928 
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LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2ffT992 


TELEVISION REVIEW 


What’s it all 


about, Michael? 


‘THERE’S a veiy subtle difference 
between Alfie and me." Michael Caine 
used to tell envious chaps who thought 
he might be a real-life version of his 
famous screen character. “Alfie will go 
out with anybody. 1 only go out with 
the ones you can't go out with.” Then 
comes the cheeky Caine pin. pricking 
die arrogance without dispelling the 
essential truth of the remark. 

Caine, the subject of last night’s 
Hollywood Greats on Channel 4, has 
indeed done well for himself.- wealth, 
fame, -critical glory, beautiful wife, 
fancy houses. Sean Connery is perhaps 
the only other British film star who 
might merit the Hollywood Greats 
treatment, but even he lacks Caine's 
versatility. Caine's additional triumph 
is that he has become a success on his 
own terms, without dropping his 
cockney accent or abandoning his 
south London roots, without infesting 
the sort of tackier gossip columns that 
thrive on movie-star pillow talk, and 
without losing his sense of what really 
matters in life. 

Candid Caine once confessed that: 
“When you have a high standard of 
living, sometimes you must make a 
very low standard of movie." And 
although he has grown more picky 
about which films he wOJ and won't do. 
the piddness is not always down to the 
quality of the screenplay. "When I 
open up a script and it says, 'Nome, 
Alaska. Our hero is walking in the 
blinding snow with a dog sled . . . ’ I 
dose h again. Quickly." How can you 
dislike somebody who is so honest? 


In last night's tribute, such co-stars 
as Bob Hoskins and JuJie Walters 
hailed Caine for opening doore for a 
new generation of not-so-posh British 
actors. As Caine said: "1 always saw 
people of my own class portrayed on 
screen by upper-dass people as a sort of 
caricature, as a sort of insult We always 
wound up as forelock-tugging, grovel- 
ling. monosyllabic oafs. And this 
always made me very angry.” His 
ambition was "just to play \ittle cockney 
parts in English movies, but to play 
them correctly, with the correct accent, 
with some dignity 7 ’. Hoskins often 
adopts an American accent for Holly- 
wood: Caine randy. 

Caine later returns to this theme: 
“People often ask me why I’ve kepi my 
cockney accent I've kept my accent 
and I kept my working class demean- 
our in order that when another child 
said .to his or her parents. ‘I want, to 
become this ... doctor, lawyer, scien- 
tist musician' and when their parents 
said ‘who do you think you are' they 
would think of me and say. ‘well he did 
it I can do if." Frankly, this sort of 
thing can sound like oh-my-gawd 
gush. Caine makes it sound heartfelt 
which means he is either as decent a 
chap as he looks or an even better actor 
than we imagine. 

Many fail to appreciate how hard 
Caine works at his Quid performances, 
from The Ipcress File to Woody Allen's 
Hannah And Her Sisters, his only 
Oscar winner. He may not go in for 
fashionable .method acting, which 
might require him to spend a month in 





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Caine: Ms ambition was “just to play the little cockney parts correctly" 


a Salvation Army hostel and contract powerful people speak slowly and 
scurvy before playing the role of a move slowly: and subservient people 
hobo, but he knows how to move for . speak quickly and move quickly and 
the camera. He pierced equal to Olivier ihat’s because if they don't speak fast 


in Sleuth, for example. 

Famous as a fount of useless know- 
ledge. Caine also brims with smart 
insights into life. "The basic rule of 
human nature," he told us. "is that 


nobody will listen to them." Caine 
always speaks slowly, and still in a 
cockney accent 


Joe Joseph 


GASPS, groans and ironic laughter 
filled the Radio 4 airwaves on Saturday 
and Sunday afternoon, as a two-part 
adaptation of Peter Flannery's play 
Singer went out This is the story of a 
Jew from Lvov. Peter Singer, who 
survives Auschwitz, becomes a rich, 
racketeering slum landlord in London, 
and ends up as a saint (and a knight to 
boot) serving soup to the homeless. 

It was an -ambitious undertaking, 
and the BBC were lucky to get Antony 
S her to repeat die performance he gave 
as Singer in the original Royal Shake- 
speare Company production in 1989. 
What a pity that the play itself is such a 
crude piece of emotional exploitation. 

Perhapsorily Primo Levi has found a 
tone in which it is possible to write 
about Auschwitz — sparing the reader 
no horror, yet breathing a note of such 
deep humanity and moral delicacy that 
it is not only possible but even strangely 
enriching to read on. Unfortunately, 
there was nothing like that in the ugly 


RADIO REVIEW 


Making a hell of a racket 


Auschwitz scenes -that we heard here. 

Singer in fact never becomes a 
character. The changing situations of 
his life are just devices for jerking 
different, jarring emotions out of us. In 
Auschwitz, unbearable revulsion and 
depression. On his arrival in Britain, a 
thin pathos. When he evicts an old 
couple, disgust at him. shallow pity for 
the victims. When he jeers at the 
British, masochistic satisfaction or 
irritation, or both. So it goes on, and 
one simply feels manipulated — which 
means that none of the emotions last 

The other characters are cartoon 
figures — apart from one, Stefan (Mick 
Ford). Singer’s movingly loyal friend 
from the camps, whose unobtrusive life 
is devoted to remembering the past, as 


year by year he covers his walls with 
frescoes of those who died in the 


camps. 

Nevertheless, except for dial relent- 
less chorus of gasps, it was a remark- 
able production by Michad Fox. The 
music was haunting: the complex 
scenes with many people were almost 
always sharply focussed and instantly 
intelligible (only the scene where 
Singer does his first property deal was 
obsaire to me — was he sitring on the 
pavement?). Sheris achievement was to 
find the right rhetorical tone — 
wheedling, mean, enraged, self-pity- 
ing — for all the different high-pitched 
tableaux. But even he could not save 
the last scene, where a ludicrously 
caricatured set of Thatcherite politi- 


cians, practically as vicious • as the 
Auschwitz guards, try to tempt Singer 
bade into property dealing, and he 
casts them behind him as he goes 
nobly off into the wilderness. 

The Natural History Programme 
(Radio 4. Friday) dipped into a 
different kind of horror. It brought on 
a biologist to discuss the plausibility of 
some of the monsters from outer space 
in the film Alien 3 . He thought that 
they most resembled foe kind of 
parasites that lay eggs in caterpillars, 
but considered it unlikely that such 
elaborate life-forms would have devel- 
oped just on the off-chance of hitching 
a lift on a passing spaceship. 

If there is life on other planets, we 
were reassured, it will probably consist 
of no more than minute bacteria-like 
organisms, living under foe rocks out . 
of sunlight That sounds bad enough 
tome. 


Derwent May 


NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE 


Youthful fling lacks the capacity to surprise 



THOUGHTS of maps, borders and 
limits were never far from my mind 
during this "devised multimedia 
piece" by the National Youth Theatre 
of Great Britain, opening its London 
season. A cast of 14 explored themes of 
Love, desire, jealousy and fulfilment 
They continually crossed foe dividing 
lines between physical theatre, mime, 
dance and “straight” drama. There 
were few scenes of pure dialogue and 
no narrative thread beyond a pooriy 
worked out sense of flight and pursuit 
All on stage impressed with their 
fierce commitment if not always with 
the way in which they projected such 
speech as there was. They exemplified ■ 


Maps for Lost Lovers 
The Place 


the team spirit and physical zest that 
are foe company's hallmarks. 


Olivia Trench and Emily Brum, 
of the National Youth Theatre 


are foe company's hallmarks. 

But I fear their ideas have out- 
stripped their technical abilities and 
foe resources available. Heavy and 
frequent reliance on slide-projected 
images, ambitious use of film se- 
quences and long, ill-advised passages 
of choreographed movement carrying 
miniature “junk" sails, on which more 
film, slide images and fragments of 
poetry and dialogue are projected, 
made me resdess long before the 90- 
minute show was over. Which was a 
pity, given the pure exhilaration and 


bracing unexpectedness of much along 
the way. 

In part, my dissatisfaction with the 
show stemmed from a lack of surprise 
at the sentiments expressed- Yes. love is 
a risky business; no question that 
rejection hurts; sure, love means being 
able to let go of children, lovers and 
friends. So far. so obvious. The 
impression grew that, valuable as 
working on foe piece must have been 
as an exercise for the cast it added up 
to a less than compelling evening. 

Andy Price’s music, initially impres- 
sive in its aptness for either rhythmic 
drive or elegiac wistiuiness, became 
tedious with repetition; Caroline Rye’s 
slides and projections, in themselves 
often striking and wdLmade, seemed 
to take longer and longer to get going. 
The side-o tetage appearances by indi- 
vidual cast members, reading pre- 
pared texts to an unseen and sadistic 
auditioning authority at foe rear of the 
theatre, simply looked contrived. 

One outstandingly effective se- 
quence was the “love-trial" of one 


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young wranan by anofoer (there was 
no false conventionality about the 
pairing off anywhere in the show). The 
demands by one that the other - say you 
love me" became ever more unreason- 
able, until she openly revealed the self- 
obsession which had been her 
motivation all along. Another high- 
light was the intermittent parodying of 
Seven Brides for Seven Bruther$-$ty]e 
Western musicals and Lassie films, 
with a spirited version of "This Land is 
Your Land" and a splendid “gunfight" 
around a huge boulder, matched by 
anofoer scene of hearty cowgirls (one 
busily shaving) by a waterfall. 

Best of the rest was the frenzied, 
almost martial arts, disco section, to an 
insistent Al ichad Jackson-meets-metal 
riff; but this outstayed its welcome. 
Director Dean Byfield is also credited 
with foe bulk of the text More pace, 
fewer effects and a touch more humour 
would, go far towards improving foe 
show. Perhaps this map covers too 
large an area. I look forward, however, 
to seeing how a company with this^ 
much taient tackles the next show.'* 
Lionel Barfs Maggie May, at the 
Royalty Theatre from next week. 






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ARTS 3 


Triumph on a plate 


for British baritone 


I n the latter part of the SahW 
Festival there was at last one opera 
production that Gerard Mortar 
.and hxs supporters could with 
jusnncanon daun as a truiygruwn-up 
success — Sakmie conducted hy Christoph 
wn DohnSnyi and directed by Lnc 
Bondy. After the dress rehearsal which c 
wiat the truly smart attend in Salzburg, 
the hu 2 z went round about the young 
British bass-baritone Bryn Terfel’s sensa- 
tional Jokanaan. with many a “noi since 
the yramg Hans Hotter” encomium. 
Catherine Malfitano had not sung out in 
the title rule, and so came up on the inside, 
as it were, on the first night By the second 
performance on Sunday they mpdf an 
overwhelmingly powerful pair of 
antagonists. 

Malfitano. a noted Butterfly (and stiB 
basking in the feme erf her ‘’real time” 
televised 7bsoa) has a realty good fflp* to 
her essentially lyric soprano, one.-that 
projects easily over even Strauss’s arches-' 
tra: she is also petite and an instinctively 
com municat ive actress, a natural there- 
fore. for Salome. She and Terfel’s 
J o ka naan ,. a caged animal towering over 
her with distinctly equhmeal reactions to - 
the challenge of her sexuality, strode 
sparks off each other erf a pecufiariy 
disturbing intensity. Terfel’s singing was 
indeed sensational heroic of timbre, 
vividly dramatic of delivery. Every opera- 
house manager in the audience was 
ing him down as their next 


Bryn Terfel’s success 
• as Jokanaan in a 


stunning Salome has 
been the sensation of 


the Saizlirg Festival, 
reports Rodney Milnes 


m 


Wotan; let us pray he says no far the next 
ten years. 

Erich Wonder's sombre set suggested 
that Herod was busy constructing a 

bunker beneath his palatv* T nlcanaan wnc 

imprisoned beneath a concrete gtah Aar 
bad played havoc with the parquet 
flooring. Within it. Bendy played the 
piece as an intimate family drama. There 
were no extras, and Jews (lightly carica- 
tured) and Nazarenes (blond and whole- 
some — some irony intended?) entered 
only when the music demanded it 

The problem is that modi erf the 
motivation depends on the action being 
played out in public, but this was made up 
for by the concentration of Salome’s 
interplay with Herod (Kenneth RiegeQ 
and toe elegantly dangerous Herodias of 
Hanna Schwarz. The chaste Dance was 
with seven veils and nothing to do with 
removing them; far more tension was 
generated by Salome’s gradual unveiling 
ofthe head, which came gift-wrapped in a 
doth dripping with fresh btood. The final 


seme. rapfmou riysnngbyMaIfitano.was 
truly disgusting. 

- DohnAnyi's conducting came, as a 
surprise after bis memorably debcaie. 
filigree rearfing aT Covert Garden three 
jraus ago. Here he paeadedT. over a 
t raditi o n al, tub-thumping account of the. 
score which was almost unbearably loud 
•■in the Ktemes FestqpfeDisbos. Maybe foe 
Vienna Philharmonic pliers have ft 
.written into their contract that they need 
not play at less than Jbrte in Bahbura. If 
so, tire contract needs swift renegotiation. 

This new Salome is a coproduction 
with the Brussels Opera. Mortar's former 
fiet and it will be seen later in Chicago, 
Coproductio n s are new here; and not 
over-popular: audiences fed that Ugh 
ticket prices should g uaran tee a certain 
exclusivity, but even in Sahbnrg financial 
realities must reign. There was much lip- 
euriing in- advance aver the Ursd and 
Kari-Emst Herrm ann production of 1 a 
Wnia giuBniw i, Which fl ' gri came f i gW 
Brussels and has already been to America; 
why should Salzburg put up with 
Mortiert cast-offs? 

In the event this earty Mozart was. 
musically at least a high point of die 
festival thmstmgjy conducted by Sylvain 
Cambrding andplayed with blithe spirit 
by the Mozarteum Orchestra. The cast 
was truly festive: Anne Sofie von Otter 
radiant in tire trouser-role, Joanna 
Kozlowska as tiie eponymous fake gar- 
dener, Laurence Dale as her homiadal 
admirer. Malvina Mtgor splendidly bossy 
as his fiancte. Ugh Beneffi bringing hue 
Italian dash to the Mayra, with Elzbieta 
Szmytka and Dale Duesing as the 
servants. I cannot imagine them bring 
bettered. 

The main thing is. the audience in the 
charming little Landesfoeater absolutely 
loved the performance, all four-and-a-half 
hours of it m a commendably full edition 
— that is what festivals are for. The 


Herrmanns’ production was not to afi 
tastes: fussy, farcica l and presided over by 
a cute, minute but mature woodland 
sprite, whose addition to the cast list raised 
any number of debatable “isms”. And to 
play the murderous Count as a complete 
ninny right from the start (he fell in a ditch 
In his entrance aria and had to start 
again) is to avoid most of the issues ofthe 
piece. But it looked pretty and w as 
carefufly lit 

The festival's one grave disappoint- 
ment to put it xmfcfly, was from fete 
. House of the Dead. Claudio Abbado, 
con du cti n g as theugh Jan nek's opera 
were bring performed in some nightmare 
e di ti o n by '-espigl u^ma de no^apparenr 

Fescspidhaus: the Vienna Philharmonic 
let np and gave the score the full 
Mantovani sheen, through which the 
voices occasionally emezged. 

The only member of the cast to 
modi impression was the American bass- 
baritone Monte Pederson, who managed 
to convey same of the agony of Shishkov's 
narration; Philip Langridge (Skuratov) 
and Barry McCauley (Luka) were defeat- 
ed. wastcfuDy so.by the orchestra and by 
crass direction. 

JandfiridS gulag opera was 
Klaus Michael Gruber in 
decor (Eduardo Arroyo): chic, cool pastel- 
shaded rod utterly empty, all effect and 


no cause. It was as though Ota of the key 

JOth 


masterpieces of acid about the 2( 
century were being sanitised, prettified 
and made acceptable to a Salzburg 
audience; to my mind an tat of gross 
artistic betrayaL 

The festival’s only operatic nod in the 
direction of the Rossini bicentenary was a 
pair of concert performances of Tueredi, 
deprived for murico-pditical reasons of its 
two stars, Marilyn Home and Edita 
Gruberova. Home apparency declined to 
perform the original and infimtriy superi- 
or happy ending, and Gruberova de- 
clined to perform without Home. 

As it happened, that much under-rased 
soprano Nelly Miridoiu provided some of 
the week’s loveliest ringing as Amenaide. 
She has everything you need for Rossini: a 
beautiful and expressive voice, style, taste 
and technique. A - triumph! Home’s 
substitute was the young Vessefina 
Kasarova. who had earlier sung Annm in 
Tito. There is much potential here, and 1 
hope the rave reception she was given for 
saving the show.will not 
development 



Head hunted: Catherine Malfitano in the title role and Bryn Terfel as Jokanaan in Luc Bundy's staging of Salome 


EDINBURGH: Benedict Nightingale on Fringe theatre, and David Robinson (right) on early highlights of the film festival 


A nose for the rough stuff 


EDINBURGH! 
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S eldom can a chap have 
been more proboscalty 
challenged than Tom 
Mannkm. playing the title role 
in Cyrano de -Bergerac 
(Traverse). His hooter sprouts 
from his face in a great hkjsted 
Wend of toadstool, jdfyfish, 
dangling testicle and embry- 
onic bagpipe and. like foe rest 
• of Gerry Mulgrew’S produc- 
tion, it is a refreshing correc- 
tive to recent revivals of 
Rostand'S play. True, this is a 
surpassingly romantic, piece _ 
but it is supposed to be about 
love and war. I have Seen 
Cyranos who loved j like 
naitdeptics, fought like cu- 
rates — and sported qxtety; 
elongated little beaks, maze 
likely to promote, dalliance 
than disgust 

ftj? No chance trf • surih 
'sentimentalities when the 
Scots company. Communt 
cado, comes bursting onstage, 
all physical bravado and 
humorous daring-do. Edwin. 
Morgan, the translator, may, 
come np 'with some odd. 
rhymes pfoible” with. “Trib- 
ble”), buThisbrashconteinpo- 
rary lingo seizes the attention, 
especially when put across in 
Glaswegian accents. 

Where Christopher Ry ex- 
pected Rostand's hero to warn 
the foe with whom he is 
duelling that “the blade begins 
to flit", Mannion growls “its 
kebab time" and means it His 
-Js. a passionate, dangenxE 
-Cyrano, with his wHa-man 
<i$iair and glittering eyes a 
? tough warrior and. when he 
surreptitiously substitutes for 
Kennrih Glenaan’s dumb . 
Christian in the love-soenes 



ttte downbeat. What will hap- 


Makohn Shields as VaJvert Tom Mammon as Cyrano 


with Sandy McDade’s Ro- 
xane, a genuinely desolate 
wooer. ■ almost whimpering 
with the pain afdeprivatiQn. 

Of .couxse, die whole process 
itoo far. That is anoarent 


i tbe moment the" 
able Hotel de Bourgogne is 
revealed as. a jnatemift fair- 
ground in which roughnecks 
in - tuxedos buy icecreams 

from gnb with trays- It is even - 
.more evident when Cyrano’s 
Gascon noHemen swagger 
onstage in biker jackets. But 
the production, raw and mu- 
cous though it may be. still . 
makes us aware of what has 
too often been misang from 
the play inventiveness, ener- 
gy, immediacy. In short, fife . 

The Traverse may recently 
haw switched operations from 
a braiding thrown together by 
Esau to one custom-built by 
Jacob; but itstwoauditoria still 
have '.an informal box-like 
look; and die theatre’s man- 
agement has taken particular 


care to £D them with rude, 
robust work. Take a not- 
uncharacteristic moment in 
Simon Donald'S life of Staff, 
which is to be found,, like 
Cyrano.mfoe Mack Umbo of 
Studio . One. Would you 
befcvea Glasgow hood giving 
a credulous pothead a “sweet- 
ie" that is actually a sliced-off 
toe, and then pulling a do-it- 
yourself drill from his holster 
and hoklirig-it, quietly buzz- 
ing, at the throat of ms next. 
nftifVd victim? Would you 
think me sadistic if I said that 
the incident is also very funny? 

Donald is quite a find, a 
dramatist who can create a 
worid that b gruesome, comic 
and ttttedy distinctive. It is one 
of dim gWs looking for ecstasy 
parties and ernninai psycho- 
paths who vary from the sty 
through the megalomaniac to 
the trttaty dopey. The story 
fakes a confusing tom or two 
towards the end, but otherwise 
it adeptly mixes the tense with 


appalled to find that when he 
thought he was burning a van 
to get the insurance be was 
actually incinerating a night- 
dub owner trussed up in the 
back? Will he be killed by the 
heavy with the power drill the 
eczema problem artel the un- 
happy childhood memories? 
Or will tire victim be the 
swaggering yuppie whom 
both men deferentially regard 
as their boss? 

Whether the Glasgow un- 
derworld is as muddled or as 
vicious as this, I cannot say. 
But with Stuart McQuame. 
Brian McCardie and Duncan 
Duff gormfesdybatfiing it out, 
John Mitchell's crisp, sardonic 
production somehow retains 
credibility. So does another of 
tire more admired efforts on 
this year’s Fringe, Paul Mer- 
riert Studs, which involves an 
even more barbaric subcul- 
ture: amateur soccer in the 
Irish outback. 

The Passion Machine, as 
Mender's c om p a ny is aptly 
called, has only to bounce and 
clatter onstage for us to won- 
der why they aren't thrashing 
Arsenal instead of losing to no- 
hope teams, so loud, pugna- 
cious and disciplined is the 
acting. Their fortunes improve 
with a new manager. Eamonn 
Hunt’s Keegarl one of those 
grubby, disappointed fanta- 
sists and angry, alcoholic 
dreamers often to be found in 
Irish plays. He provides most 
of the human interest; but the 
other 11 actors, in their Mack 
shirts and anachronistic baggy 
white Short* offer the eye- 
grabbing eratenStent I have to 
say that I enjoyed their fero- 
ripwsty imaginative miming of 
matches far more than the 
draw between Chelsea and 
Oldham that I - saw at Stam- 
ford Bridge the other day. But 
that may be a comment on 


D espite a constant bat 
tie-wilh woefully inad- 
equate funds, die 
Edinburgh film festival !<« a 
record of launching new talent 
and new films — Fassbinder, 
Wenders and Almoddvan My 
Beautiful Laundrette and A 
Fish Called Wanda. 

In 1958 the festival featured 
Roman Polanski's brilliant de- 
but short. Two Men and a 
Wardrobe. Thirty-five years 
on, a surprise screening of 
Polanski's new Bitter Moon 
demonstrates that loyalty to 
former discoveries does not 
always pay off In the course of 
a cruise, a polite young En- 
glishman (Hugh Grant, the 
best thing in the film) is 
buttonholed fay a bitter, sar- 
donic cripple who, with An- 
cient Mariner persistence, 
unfolds the unseemly tale of 
his sadistic sexual life and 
tormented marriage. In the 
bands of a BufhieL the stray 
could have been funny and 
satirical. Polanski turns it into 
embarrassing personal 


Faith 
in the 


past 


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confessional, excruciatingly te- 
dious at 150 minutes. 

Ian Sellar baler justifies 
Edinburgh's faith. Sellar first 
appeared at the festival years 
ago with a film school short. 
Alberts Memorial , and again 
in 1989 with Venus Peter. His 
new film. Prague, is a model 


of European collaboration, 
filmed in Czechoslovakia with 
French and German stars, 
Sandiine Bonnaire and Bru- 
no Ganz. and a pleasant new 
Scottish actor Alan Dimming. 
The anecdote is shght and 
slyly charming: a young man 
arrives in Prague in search of a 
fragment of film of his fore- 
bears, killed by the Nazis; but 
becomes involved in the emo- 
tional politics of the film 
archive. It is anybody’s guess if 
charm and whimsy alone will 
win the commercial accep- 
tance at which Prague aims. 

A Brnon in America. Mich- 
ael Apted, presents an unusual 
double. Incident at Ogbla, 
produced by Robert Redfbrd, 
is a fast straight-to-the-point 
inquest into the conviction of 
Leonard Peltier, a member of 
the American Indian Move- 
ment. fra foe murder of two 
FBI agents on Pine Ridge 
reservation in South Dakota 
in 1975. Recording Peltier's 


own convincing case, and the 
deep-rooted prejudices of 
many of the while lawyers and 
police involved. Apted appears 
to expose a terrible miscar- 
riage of justice. 

The case and foe documen- 
tary are foe inspiration of 
Apted ’s feature. Thunder- 
heart actually shot at the same 
reservation. Val Kilmer plays 
an FBI man cynically chosen 
to investigate a murder on foe 
reservation, on account of his 
part-Indian blood. The 
shameful, thud -worid social 
condition of foe Indians and 
die abuses of white racism are 
shown unsparingly, even if 
John Fusco’s saipt in the end 
is side-tracked into mysticism 
and an evasive, romantic de- 
nouement — a wish-dream of 
Indian revolt 

The biggest successes with 
Edinburgh audiences have 
been, inevitably. Baz 
Luhrman’s unfailing Strictly 
Ballroom and, less predict- 
ably, David Attwood's WBd 
West a. modest British film 
which makes up in exuber- 
ance what it lacks in polish, its 
innovation is to see Pakistani 
life in Southall not in terms of 
social problems, but through 
the eyes of ordinary daft kids 
with unlikely but unquench- 
able ambitions to be Country 
and Western stars. 


ARTS BRIEF 


Winner’s 


winners 



Bmno Ganz in Ian Sellar's Prague: the film is a model of European collaboration 


CHAMBER MUSIC Hflaiy Flgdi reports from Stavanger in Norway on an enterprising international festival which is now in its second year 


: * /"I tavanger's off-shore in- 

■ dustiy certainly oils the 
; IkJ cultural wheels of this 
-fi small coastal town on 1 the 
ioufo-westtip of Norway; But 
Cranes and storage tanks are 

ntheonlyntonumentstpthe 

identity of this ineneas- 

-csmopolitan dty. 

Hfaer side of the har- 
♦wo dome-lflte stnte- 
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-anger's cultural 
glass dome of 
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perched above the docka. and 
with its offices in an old 
sardine-canning factory, is foe 

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Stavanger Konserthtis, buih in 
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’ fob year, 
displayed 
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foe mfl- 1980s as part erf a 
leafy ‘ campus, which ab o 
houses the ‘Conservatory, 
Community Music School 
and, now in its - second year, 
foe International Chamber 
Music Festival - 

Truls Mork. foe cellist, and 
oboist Gregor Znbidcy. foun£ ■ 
ed foe festival . to provide 
Norway with a summer foctB 
on chamber musfc wroch tt 


faring in comparison with its 
faftsdieneiihboiirs.'nieOon- 
sayatoiy offered fee use of its 
buildings free, and a secure 
team of local sponsors was. 
ieadfly. available. Within a 
year foe books balanced, foe 
Commune of Stavanger gave 
the festival a permanent place 
iq; its budget and, among 
musicians, word was getting 
'around .'foal this, too, was 
going to be yet another signifi- 
cant meeting place- . 

- This year, Michael CoOim 
played hs :dariner. m foe 


company of one of 
finest viola players, Ta 
Zimroermann; members of 
foe Allegri Quartet found 
themselves sharpening their 
wits in foe presence of the 
outstanding young Czech cd- 
Jist, Midiada Fukacova. 

The late nigit concert in 
Stavanger's zomanesque car 
ihedral produced, charaaeris- 
tkalty, some of foe liveliest 
music-making, Tchaikovsky’s 
sextet. Souvenir de Florence 
packed foe cathedral The 
unusually, dear and spacious 


acoustic of the grey granite 
pointed up the playing of the 
Russian violinist, Sergei 
s tartler , second to Viktoria 
MuBova in the Sibdhs Com- 
petition. first prizewinner in 
foe 1982 Tchaikovsky Compe- 
tition and. quite unjustifiably, 
virtually unknown in London. 

The evening before, Collins 
had found himself - in the 
company of Peter Carter and 
Roger Tapping (ABfigri Quar- 
tet), Fukacova, Hakan Ehren, 
double bass.-Ib Lanzky Otto, 
ham (both from foe Stock- 


holm Philharmonic), and bas- 
soonist Dag Jensen for a 
vigorous Beethoven E flat 
Septet. This was an unpredict- 
able, risk-taking performance 
of foe type unique to a festival 
in wfatdi musicians previously 
unknown to each other are 
worked hard (27 concerts in 
nine days) in a perilously foort 
space of time. The setup has its 
casualties, of course: a Poulenc 
trio and one or two lunchtime 
items were urater-praHietL 
The thorny Prokofiev Quin- 
tet Op 39. though, (featuring 


Michael Collins, Tabea Zim- 
mermaim, and the incisive 
brilliance of American violinist 
Kurt Nikkanen) triumphed in 
a stimulating programme 
which alsoinchidea Denisov’s 
1986 Variation on a Theme 
Igt Schubert This piece intro- 
duced the 22-year-old, Mos- 
cow-born pianist Karia 
Skanavi who will tour Europe 
later this year with Yuri 
Bashmet's Moscow Soloists. 
The uncovering of powerfully 
imaginative musacranfofo like 
tare is just one of the achieve- 
ments of a festival which is 
poised to become a vital part of 
the ever widening circuit of 
Nordic festivals. 


NEVER again can ft be said 
that the great barons erf foe 
film and television world do 
.not care about those at the 
bottom of foe pile. The film 
director Mich ad Winner and 
foe British Academy of Film 
and Television Arts have just 
announced a new award for 
deserving lower ranks — those 
bearing such titles as ‘'run- 
ner. “best boy" and “general 
junior assistant". Called foe 
Michael Winner/BAFTA 
Award for the Best Beginner, 
it wifi provide an annual 
£5,000 cash prize, together 
with £1,000 each for two 
runners-up. 

The first winner wifi be 
announced in September 
1993. Winner is funding the 
award himself. “One thing I 
know, having worked as an 
employer in motion pictures 
for 37 years, is that there are 
people right at the bottom, 
many of whom do an abso- 
lutely stunning job that has 
not been acknowledged." 

Ruffled feathers 


AT English National Ballet 
the swans are getting agitated. 
First the company's artistic 
director. Ivan Nagy, an- 
nounced that he was going to 
mount his own new produc- 
tion of Swan Lake, replacing 
the Natalia Makarova staging 
that has since been dropped. 
Now, Nagy says he is bowing 
out of the new production, 
which wifi be choreographed 
instead by the Russian balleri- 
na Raissa Struchkova. Accord- 
ing to foe company. Nagy’s 
change of heart is due to 
“personal reasons”. 

Struchkova, who retired 
from foe stage in 1978. will 
use the sets and costumes from 
the 1982 Swan Lake designed 
by Carl Toms. Swan Lake is 
due to open in Southampton 
next February. ENB has also 
announced a new production 
of The Sleeping Beauty, cho- 
reographed by Ronald Hynd, 
ana opening in autumn 1 993. 


Last chance .. . 

THE National Gallery's 
“Brief Encounters’* shows 
bring together two or three 
paintings that are related in 
some way. The latest juxta- 
poses the gallery’s own The 
Courtyard of a House in Delft 
by Pieter de Hooch, and 
Vermeer’s The Little Street, 
from foe Rijksmuseum. Am- 
sterdam. De Hooch emerges 
as the more humane. Vermeer 
as an early practitioner of 
Magic Realism. Other early 
views of Ddfr by Card 
Fabritius and Egbert van der 
Pod are also included in the 
show, at the Sunley Room of 
the National Gallery (07 1- 
389 332 1) until Monday. 



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tif f. -ft times WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1 992 


The man 





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castles 



Castles in the hand: Schloss Bedbnrg (left): Burg Rhfemeck at Bad Breisig (top right), and Burg Heramersbach at Kerpen where their collector, Herbert Hfflebrand, has his office in the banqueting hall 

Ian Murray on the ambitions of Herbert Hillebrand, a German property emperor who 
probably owns more moats and strongholds than anyone since the Hohenzollems 


T he banqueting hall oF Burg 
Hemmersbach at Kerpen, 
near Cologne, is vast Four 
big chandeliers swing 
■ from the beams over a table large 
enough to stage a banquet for 70 
people. But even this room is too 
small to house anything larger than 
models of Herbert HiHebrand’s 
' monumental collection. For 
Hillebrand probably owns more 
castles in Germany today than 
anyone since the days of the 
Hohenzollems. 

He is so fond of this collection, 
however, that he has had large-scale 
models of part of it made and stuck - 
on the walls and sloping roof of the 
hall which he uses as an office, so 
that he can look up and enjoy them 
while he works. They am so many 
bird's-eye views of his treasures, 
which must inspire him in running 
his international property and 
building empire, as he sits at one 
comer of the huge dining table he 
uses as a desk. So. too, must the wall- 
to-cefling photograph of his ever- 
growing family, which covers the 
jjpgd wall of the banquMing hall 
The models are of 13 of his 
network of 22 castles all over 
Germany, which he has bought and 
carefully restored over the past 
quarter oF a century. He is currently 
negotiating to buy six more from 
among the 200 which have been put 
on the market in eastern Germany 
since unification. He thinks that by 
the time he has a total of 2 S his urge 
to collect will be satisfied, but there is 
a look in his eye as he gazes up at his 
models that suggests he is too 


hooked on the' castle-buying bug - 
evertostop. 

Herr Hillebrand was a local 
builder in Kerpen who was becom- 
ing a successful properly developer 
in 1970 when he bought '^urg 
Dtstemich, not far away at Dfiren. It 
was in a sorry state of repair but he ■ 
fell in loye with the romantic moated 
and turreted stronghold, built by the . 
Herzog van Jflniai in 121 7, .arid ' 
decided to renovate it as a present 
for his eldest daughter, Svenja. fJe 
paid only DM100,000 for if — in 
those days the equivalent of about ' 
E10.000 — but he had to find 
another million to restore and equip 
it with central heating and an 
indoor swimming pool — a nori- 
authentic luxuiy which ;he has 
installed in every castle he has 
collected. 

.The renovation was such a success 
that he was inspired to go on. He 
decided, too. that it was unfair for 
just one of his children to have a 
castle. He set about finding one for 
each of them. A strong Catholic, 
who has become involved in charity 
work for orphans in South America, 
he has 1 3 children so far, including 
four adopted Colombian orphans. 
The youngest is just over a year old 
but she. like the rest of them, has a 
castle she can call her own. Some of 
his older children have already been 
given a second one. 

The collection is not however. 


simply a rich man's expensive foible. 
“It is not a hobby," he insisted. 
“There is too much work and worry 
involved]. It is much easier and more 
profitable to put up new bufldings.. 
But 1 do love the old buildings. If 1 - 
could just do what I wanted, 1 would 
only restore old buildings.” 


ing would be able to make money 
does he take into consideration how 
beautiful it is.or where it is situated. 

At the same time the final derision 
on whether to buy depends on 
whether or not he really likes toe 
castle. “It is like with a woman. 
Some you look at and just say jo.” 



They all have a turret of their own: Hfllebrand with his children 


Heir • HiHebrund nevertheless 
aims to run his collection at a profit 
His first priority when sizing up 
whether to buy a castle or not is 
“How can we use it?" Only when he 
is satisfied that the renovated build- 


His collection consists of castles in 
all shapes and sizes. One has 120 
rooms, others are small moated 
jewels. The majority were built in 
the last century, but there are also 
romantic earlier castles overlooking 


the Rhine and a splendid fortress at 
Hamburg. 

He said that it was easy enough to 
find castles for sale if you wanted 
one. “There are many, many castles 
in Germany and most of them 
belong to the local communes. They 
do not have the money these days to 
look after them and are keen to 
privatise if only they can find a 
buyer.” 

In most cases, he said, he had 
been able to buy the castles very 
cheaply, although a usual condition 
of the contract of sale is that he 
renovates. The task of restoring a 
castle to its former glory is made the 
easier by the extensive documenta- 
tion available in state archives. “We 
have very thorough archives, even in 
eastern Germany, which we can 
use.” These usually detail precisely 
what the building was like when it 
was first built and it is therefore 
possible to recreate the original 
ideas of the architect 
. Some of the best labour he finds 
in Poland these days. The Poles 
have a particular skQl in making the 
ornate plasterwork ceilings which 
were frequently a feature of the 
castles' more gracious rooms. 

The tax authorities provide an 
added incentive to restore. All 
investments to preserve buildings 
which are officially recognised as 
historic buildings quality for a ten- 
percent tax rebate for ten years. This 


means that anyone preserving such 
a structure can reclaim the full cost 
of restoration from the taxman over 
a decade. “You should tell the 
British about that idea. That might 
help there," Herr Hillebrand said. 

.Once the castle is restored, a 
process which can take two years or 
more, Herr Hillebrand rents it out 
Sometimes the local authority which 
soW it to him in the first place takes it 
over again. The castles have a 
variety of new careers as hotels, 
museums, .offices, old people’s 
homes and the like. Inside each of 
those belonging to his children, 
however, there is a small area of 
living quarters which they can use if 
they want to one day. 

At present, however, his whole 
family live at Kerpen, absentee 
landlords of the castle collection. 
Busy as he is, Heir Hillebrand 
scanxty has time to visit the proper- 
ties, although he does get to know 
each of them intimately during the 
complicated restoration process. 
They all become, in their way. his 
children. 

Whidi one ofthem would he want 
to keep if he had to sell all the rest? 
Which would he move to his desert 
island? An affable man. who an- 
swered every question with a smile. 
Herr Hillebrand was worried tty 
that one. 

He strode up and down his 
banqueting hall gazing up lovingly 
at his collection, pausing and sigh- 
ing in front of each of them. The 
choice was impossible. He frowned. 
“It would be too difficult,” be said. “I 
would want all of them." 



• AMSTERDAM: De 

Nederiandse Opera opens the 
. 1992-1993 season with Sainr- 
Saens’s Samson et Delila . a 
co-production with Brcgenzcr 
Festspieie conducted by 
Hartmut Haendien. The m- 
ous Samson is sung by Wil- 
liam Cochran and the heathen 
Delilah fry Catherine Keen. 
Het Muzkklh eater, Waier- 
loopJein 22, 10 1 1 PG Amster- 
dam. Td: (010 31) 20 
6255455. Aug 31. Sept 3. 6. 
8. 11. 14. 17, 20. 23.26. 

• GSTAAD: The Gstaad- 

Saananland Menuhin Festi- 
val at venues around the town. 
Performances include the 
Royal Philharmonic Orches- 
tra under Sir Yehudi Menu- 
hin on Aug 28, 29: La 
truviata conducted by Bruno 
Amaducri on Sept 5. and the 
London Symphony Orchestra 
under Michael Tflson Thom- 
as on Sept 1 1. 12. 
Gstaad-Saananland Menu- 
hin Festival, cJo 
Veikehisburo, CH 37S0 
Gstaad. Td (010 41) 

3047173. 

• PARIS: Manifeste at the 
Centre Georges Pompidou is 
an exhibition of everything 
from the years 1 960 to 1 990 
collected fry the centre. On the 
ground floor is a section on 
design, from aeroplanes to 
lemon-squeezers. On the up- 
per floors there are innumera- 
ble art exhibits — some of 
which, in the Pop Art and 
Conceptual Art sections, delib- 
erately make you laugh, such 
as pictures of visitors taken by 
hidden TV cameras which are 
like difiorting mirrors. Plus 
the 1905 to I960 collection, 
including works from the es- 
tate of Matisse's son. 
Manifeste, Centre Georges 
Pompidou, Paris. Tel (010 33 
1) 44781233. The main art 
exhibition runs until Nov 9. 
but some sections will dose 
from Sept 28 onwards. 

• STRESA: The Settimane 
Musicali continues into Sep- 
tember. The events take place 
in theatres and churches 
around the beautiful town on 
die shores of Lake Maggiore 
and in the Palais Borromeo on 
I sola Bella, in the middle of 
the lake. Highlights include 
the St Petersburg Philhar- 
monic Orchestra, Aug 30: the 
pianist Nikita Magaloff, Sept 
7; and violinist Stephane Tran 
Ngoc, Sept 12. 

Settimane Musicali. Via R 
Bonghi 4. 28049 Stresa. Tel: 
(010 39) 323 31095/30459. 
Until Sept 15. 

• VIENNA: Caricature and 
Satire. An exhibition of 500 
years of satirical drawings 
indudes work fry Leonardo da 
Vinci. Hogarth. Goya, Tou- 
louse-Lautrec, and Daumier. 
KnnstHaosWIcn. Untere 
Weissgerberstrasse 13. Tel: 
(43 1) 7120495. Daily iO- 
7pm. From Aug 20 to Oct 1 8. 

Heather Alston 


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MUSIC: CZECHOSLOVAKIA 

Baroque 
with cows 



A t first, Daniel Spicka 
recalls, it seemed a 
preposterous idea in 
communist Czechoslovakia: a 
baroque music festival at the 
ostentatious South Moravian 
chateau of Valtice, onoe seat of 
the princely Liechtenstein 
family. 

“We are 400 yards from the 
Austrian border — there used 
to be guards with sub-machine 
guns standing over there," 
Spicka says, pointing to a 
hillock. Behind him. under the 
leaves of a centuries-old ma- 
ple, a quintet in period-dress 
accompanies a harpsichordist 
on baroque instruments. 

Extravagantly dressed 
guests file in and out of the 
brick wine-cellar where a 
sumptuous buffet is spread, 
and recline on the lawn drink- 
ing Valtioe’s own 1989 Pinot 
Noir. Now it is in its third 
season, the Baroque Summer- 
fest at Valtke does not seem at 
all preposterous. 

Spicka, who is an architect 
and collector of baroque in- 
struments, combined forces 
with Radomir Nepras, the 
chateau’s chief restorer, to 
hold the first festival in 1989. 
when it was only an afternoon 
long. Now, over a period of 
eight days in August, visitors 
come from Prague, Vienna 
and London for a two-day 
programme of elegant ba- 
roque concerts, operas, pic- 
nics, feasts and fireworks. But 
Valtice is not a pure tourist 
event, since h is held as much 
for the 50-odd musicians as 
for the guests. 

The leading early music 
expert Jin Kotouc of Prague’s 
National Theatre Orchestra, is 
die music director. Scholars 
such as Professor Jan Smaczny 
of Birmingham University dir- 
ect. and produce the baroque 
operas and concerts. Far a 
fortnight the musicians live 
and work together at Valtice. 
much as court musicians must 
have done when Prince 


Charles Eusebius von Liech- 
tenstein sought to make his 
court the rival of the emperor’s 
in Vienna, 65km away. 

“It’s exhilarating and ex- 
hausting," says Stephen Bull 
a baroque violinist from' 
London who directs the or- 
chestra. “In eight days I've 
done 20 concerts. When we 
play on the lawn much of it is 
sight reading. Daniel refuses 
to teU us what to play. It’s just 
as it must have been to be a 
court musician. The only per- 
son missing is Prince 
Liechtenstein." 

A major attraction of the 
festival is tire ch&teau itself. 
Released Soviet war prisoners, 
fearing Stalin would have 
them shot, seized the castle 
and made it a fortress, stabling 
cattle in the courtyard and 
damaging paintings, frescoes, 
furniture and rare books left 
behind fry Liechtenstein. 

L ater, an agricultural co- 
operative took over the 
chateau, turning the. 
theatre into a garage and 
burning die sets and costumes. 
But a massive restoration is 
under way, for behind the 
crumbling facades lie some of 
the finest interiors in the 
region. 

Sometimes, the antique jars 
with the modem. At the far 
end of the lawn, five magnifi- 
cent spotted brown cows graze 
serenely around a massive oak 
under the lazy eye of a cos- 
tumed cowherd, in a Gains- 
borough-like tableau vivant 
On daser inspection, one finds 
that the cows are chained to 
the ground. Then as evening 
comes on, and the visitors ride 
off in horse-drawn carriages to 
watch Marco da Gagliano’s 
opera La Dafhe in the castle 
courtyard, a blue lorry from 
the local co-operative Farm 
pulls up. and the cows are 
trucked bade home. 

Peter Green 


New monuments for the Crimea? 


Russian entrepreneurs are on the move to 
take over the old battlefields and cemeteries 


T he battlefields of the 
Crimea are being 
fought over once again. 
Frec-market capitalism in 
Russia has created a new 
breed of cowboy: the Battle- 
field Tour Operator. Much to 
the irritation of the official 
Russian guide organisation. 
Intourist, these new entrepre- 
neurs have been drawing up 
itineraries, booking buses and 
doing up the abandoned ho- 
tels that once provided de luxe 
summer residences for Party 
members, in an attempt to 
hijack the interest of British 
tourists in the area. . 

. Causing the most anxiety, 
however, are their plans to 
refurbish British monuments 
and even to build some new 
ones. The cemeteries and me- 
morials that once filled the 
landscape were destroyed fry 
heavy bombing during the 
second world war, and the 
area is thus acutely short of 
‘’markers”. Although none of 
the building plans have yet 
met with official approval by 
the British embassy or any of 
the British regimental associa- 
tions. it is not for want of 
trying. Colonel Ivan Ivanov, 
one of the most celebrated of 
these new hucksters, has 


drawn up plans for as many as 
five new British memorials. 
They were displayed in an 
exhibition he held in Sebasto- 
pol timed to coincide with the 
visits of a number of British 
dignitaries to the area who he 
hoped might take him on. 

He also has plans to build a 
new Crimean war museum in 
the shape of a cross, and he 
wants to excavate one of the 
British ships that went down 
off the coast at Sebastopol on 
November 14, 1854, which is 
said to contain full bottles of 
whisky. His most ambitious 
plan is to build a hotel right in 
the middle of the Balaclava 
battlefield. 

“The trouble is, although 
they mean well, they are 
slightly misguided." says Lt 
Col Julian Lancaster, who is in 
charge of building a new 
official British memorial on 
Cathcart Hill which will open 
in October. “They wanted to 
recreate the cemeteries as they 
were before they were 
bombed, by just putting up 
new headstones without 
knowing where people were 
actually buried." Lt Col Lan- 
caster is also worried that 
unless checked, the new entre- 
preneurs might start selling off 


the surviving cannonballs, 
muskets and other items of 
historical interest 

Valmai Holt director of 
Holt's Tours — Britain’s long: 
est established battlefields tour 
company — has been accosted 
dozens of times fry aspirant 
tourism magnates with flashy 
business cards. Although she 
describes some of their plans 
as “rather alarming” and not 
in keeping with British taste, 
which tends to be rather 
“purist” when it comes to 
battlefields, she applauds the 
fact that ' they are trying to 
promote new ideas. ‘TTbe 
problem is there isn’t room for 
dozens of Crimean war tour 
operators and conservation- 
ists, nor enough money. When 
1 ask them how they intend to 
fund their projects their an- 
swer is always ‘Money no 
problem’, but who in Russia, is 
going to support a plan to 
buM memorials to the Eng- 
lish, at a time when they can 
barely find enough to keep 
themselves alive?" 

Certainly the irony of erect- 
ing monuments glontymg the 
military success of the opposi- 
tion seems to have escaped 
these commerrialists in their 
desperation for hard currency. 



British officers on the lookout at Cathcart Hill: how will they be remembered? 


There is an undeniable need 
for something more to. be done 
to mark the area’s historical 
importance. The memorial at 
Cathcart Hill mil be the only 
one there. Meanwhile on the 
heights above the Alma there 
are broken headstones com- 
memorating the Royal Welch 
Fusiliers who fell there, and 
even human bones lying on 
the surface of the ground. The 
North valley, the site of the 
Charge of the Light Brigade, 


remains remarkably intact, as 
is the farm that formed Lord 
Raglan's HQ, but there is no 
guarantee 'tnat they will stay 
this way. 

Despite their failure to se- 
cure much support for their 
own ideas, the new entrepre- 
neurs have at least been 
allowed to help Colonel Lan- 
caster with his current project 
He has employed Russian 
. workmen to build the obelisk 
because “the most important 


thing as far as the Russians are 
concerned is to prove to poten- 
tial investors in the West th;« 
Russian workmen funded bv 
British money is a combina- 
tion that can work, even if it j$ 

jusa on one war memorial”. 

. ln.fect they could not have 
chosen a better symbol to work 
on, or one more likely t 0 P 
inspire Western sympathy. 

Catherine 

Milner 


FOLLOWING hard on the 
heels of the spate of events 
dedicated to Lorenzo the 
Magnificent. Italy has now 
seen the opening of a new 
cyde of exhibitions, this time 
marking the 500th anniversa- 
ry of the death of Piero della 
Francesca, one of Italy’s 
greatest Renaissance artists. 
Set in many of the places in 
Tuscany and Umbria where 
the artist lived and worked, 
they give a delightful insight 
into the Italian quattrocento. 

The son of a shoemaker. 
Piero was born in 
Sansepolcro in Umbria, and 
although he worked in Flor- 
ence. Arezzo. Rome and Urbi- 
no, the small town remained 
the pivotal point of his work. 




ART: ITALY 


Piero, Piero everywhere 


His house now serves as an 
atmospheric display area and 
has opened its doors to an 
exhibition entitled In Piero's 
Sphere: Painting in Central 
Italy during the Age of Piero 
della Francesca. It traces die 

rise of Piero’s art and the way 

it spread beyond his native 
territory, where many of his 
greatest works remain, to die 
courts of Itaty. 

The celebrations offer an 
opportunity to view some of 
Piero’s masterpieces, such as 


an impressive Resurrection or 
the potyptych of.77ie Virgin of 
Pity and St Julian, in the 
setting of the Val Tiberina 
landscape whidi provides the 
background for many of the 
artist’s works. Works which 
inspired Piero, fry artists such 
as Sassetta and Beafo Angela 
co, are also on view. 

Another part of the celebra- 
tory cycle, located in the 
magnificent Ducal Palace in 
Urbina, is Piero and U rhino: 
Piero and the Renaissance 


Courts. Undo - the enlight- 
ened patronage of Duke 
Federico da Montefeltro, the 
duchy became a major polit- 
ical and cultural centre in the 
15th century and kept Piero 
butty fulfilling court commis- 
sions. The most outstanding 
of these are. the diptych poo 
traits of the duk& portrayed 
in red against .a peaceful 
landscape., and his duchess, 
Battista Sforza. They are 
splendid examples of Piero’s 
palm, mat he matical art. 


* From Sansepolcro and Ur- 
bino, it is only 20km to 
Arezzo, where Piero’s most 
famous fresco, the History of 
the Holy Cross, decorates the 
chancel of St Francis* Church; . 
A novel exhibition in the 
lower church, entitled 
ThmughJPiem's J^pesr Cloth- 
ing am Jewellery in the 
Works, of Piero deUd France- 
sca, looks at the exquisitely 
delicate detail of the jeweHegr 
and; clothes worn fay the 
people depicted in the fresco 


and other major works. Th > 
bracelets, brooches and neck 
laces are recreated by tiic" 
ooitremporary Italian jewcllc- 
Giulio Manfredi and inclutif- 
a faithful interpretation of -h 
Queen of Sheba’s diadem and 
a white-gold bracelet insnirJ 
fry the rhythms of the 

Ruth Sulliva.j 

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Central Italy during the Ai> 
Piero della Francesca. Cut, ' 
Piero, Sansepolcro. 

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Renaissance Courts. i> a r W - 
Duade, Uririno. 

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MODERN TIMES: WOMEN 5 




H ere are the farts. She 
was bona to 1959 and 
adopted as a baby by a 
Pentecostal Evangel*-’ 

| cal couple in Lancashire. In her 
mid-teens she had a romance with 
a girt, a 6sh-fiDeter. Her mother 
had her publidy denounced in the 
church and she was forced out of 
her home. Shetrorked in a funeral 
parlour and as a domestic in a 
mental hospital before going to 
Oxfoiti University and becoming a 
novelist She has a personal astrolo- 
ger and is an organic vegetarian. 
She owns a converted MG. twocats 
and is a lesbian, 

Jeanette Winteraon does not like 
fads. She prefers girts with webbed 
feet. A lady whose tears have turned 
to jewels. A family whose house has 
no floors so they spend their lives 
living on tightropes. A husband 
who gulps avatful of poisoned milk 
and swells to such a size that he 
explodes. 

Ms Winterson is die author of 
Eve novels, including Oranges Arc 
Not the Only Fruit; The Passion, 
and Sexing the Cherry. Her latest, 
Written on the Body is about love 
and passion, concentrating on die 
most physical and tangible aspects 
of relationships, but remaining 
sensual rather than erotic The 
main character is asexual blit for 
from unsexed and die litany erf love 
affairs she/he runs through awn 
highly personal. 

Ms Winterson refuses to confirm 
or deny whether the novel is based 
on personal experience. “None of 
my novels are autobiographical," 
she says. Oranges AreNot the Only 
Fruit is about a foundling brought 
up by pentecostal parents who is 
forced out of her home for haring? 
lesbian low affair, but this, as Ms 
Winterson explains does not make 
it autobiographical. 

“My novels are stones and 1 win 
never for anyone' sort out what ' 
happened and what didn't happen 
because the principle of my woric is 
to suggest dial we can newer reaDy 
know what did and didn't happen, ' 
that the boundaries between histo- 
ry and storytelling, between reality 
and dreaming, are always bang 
blurred and muddled," die says. -- 
What is certain is that Ms 
Winterson shares a house with her 
lover in Dartmouth Park, north 
London. She has a gentle demean- ' 
our and is slight but not ffafl. Her 
house- is fiDed with dedicate furni- 
ture and her soft Lancashire vowels 
echo around the sitting room. Like 
her novels her conversation does 
not fbHawa pre-determined course. 
She marries history to myth, apho- 
rism to poetry and fairy tale to fact, • 
but she always returns to love. - 
"Love is thedriving human force, 
whether it is love hr the passionate 
sense, filial or family low or love's 
obverse — hate. I am idealistic _ 


uncompromising careerist and idealist about love 




o surpn 


about love. However it ir .debased 
or m is in terpreted, it is a redemptive 
factor" she says. To focus on one 
individual so their desires become 
superior to youo is a vayt^eanang 
experience.” 

Ms Winterson is concerned that 
relationships often founder on the 
cficb£s used to express passion and 
desire and hopes that hex new novel 
will .expand tire ta d co n of love, 
exploring uncharted linguistic ter- 
ritory. in an area where me literary 
paths are especially weS trodden. 

“Art is about tapping into die 
human condition and trying to 
define those turbulent, bm -often 
inarticulate emotions which beset 
everyone: Reassurance isn’t about 
the answers, but finding a voice 
arid a stractmc m your feefings." 
she says. 

Although an intensely private 


‘Love is the 
driving human 
force, whether it 
is love in the 
passionate sense, 
filial or 
family love 
or love’s obverse 
— hate’ 


person, she has an evangelical 
yearning to reach out to people and 
a gift for preaching which die 
learnt as a child brought up on a 
diet of the Bible and sermons. "A 
great many peqptewrite to me with 
their thoughts and questions. 
Women in particular need role 
models. I want to influence the way 
people think, to jolt .diem out of 
assumption and habit and let diem 
discover, their passions. 7 1 have a 
responsibility not to be shoddy or 
lazy in art or life." • - . .-• 

Ms Winterson has no role mod- 
els but does ad mit to' admiring 
DoBy Parton for being strong, 
doing what she wants and for 
inventing hersdt She reads some 
poetry and prwecond world war 
writers but of her own generation 
says. They are deeply complacent 
and there is a lot of copy-catting. 
. F6w writers achieve their- own form 
and open -up new lands ca p es: and 
therehas been a total turning back 
of any pleasure in language." 

She believes that, like love, words 
can both release and suffocate. She 
is, first and foremost, an amazing 
literary acrobat and, despite occa- 


sionaBy appearing trite, seems able 
m makeherStories. however fantas- 
tic seem credible, as unusual 
language co mp lements unusual 
situations. “I want to encourage 
langna^mafl Its comp! exiry;lhart5 
what icaBy exc ites me . Too often h. 
is just sloppy and dirty." site says. 
“In the other arts you learn your 
craft first Unfortunately language 
is the currency of every day shop- 
ping' lists. Writers need know 
notiung. just pour but their experi- 
ence- and follow the rudiments of 
schoolboy grammar." 

Not surprisingly, none of her 
dose friends are writers. She has 
four good friends, all women — an 
a«we^. a publisher, a painter and 
an architect — who she turns to for 
support But having been brought 
up by her mother to believe dial she 
could save the world, her confi- 
dence tn herown abilities has rarely 
wavered and extends beyond her 
own medium into television, news- 
papas and films. 

She is best acquainted with 
television as Oranges Are Not the 
Only Fruit was made into a 
succesfol small screen drama se- 
ries. She feds that she has man- 
aged to subvert the relentless 
realism of die medium and use it 
for her own ends, but is dearfy still 
deeply suspicious of it and refuses 
to own a television. "It's shoddy. 
We make fifth rate programmes 
when people deserve first rate ones. 
I can only make a certain number 
of programmes so most of the time 
there is notiung to watch. It would 
be better if the screens were Wank." 
she says. As for newspapers, die is 
not prepared to read the "dung- 
heap" of words dial are churned 
out every day although she is 
prepared to write the occasional 
article. 

Her attitude to films is less 
scathing but die still teds that they 
need the Winterson touch and hre 
written a screen play. Great Mo- 
ments in Aviation that wfll pre- 
miere at Cannes next year, about a 
black woman who comes to Britain 
•in the late 1950s thinking it isthe 
Promised Land. “It is about chal- 
lenging your assumptions," she 
says. 

This is typical Winterson. She 
believes that everyone should chall- 
enge themselves and is offering me 
advice on my career after an hour's 
acquaintance. “Everyone has po- 
tential .To compromise and turn 
your back on what you want is 
extremely ' damaging. In the 
Winterson world that cannot bap- 
pen. You must keep developing 
yourself and see past your own hill 
stops," die says. Her favourite 
characters are always pushing 
themselves forward. Flying off into 
the ether, dancing themselves into 
dizzy points of light, foiling in love 
with beautiful women. 



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Role model woman: “i want to Influence the way people think, to jolt them out of assumption ... let them discover their passions" 


As wdl as female beauty. Ms 
Winterson admires strong, wise 
women. They pepper her books, 
from the domineering mother in 
Oranges AreNot the OnfyFndt, to 
the giant dogwoman in Sexing the 
Cherry. “I only work with women. I 
prefer their attitude, efficiency and 
calm," she says and calls heisdf a 
feminist though not a feminist 
writer. “We are still not in the post- 
feminist age. I am one of the tew 
young women who has made ir as a 
writer financially and inrematian~ 
ally. Women aren't taken seriously 
until they are in their fifties." 

She does not think these attitudes 
have alienated male readers and 
believes that her masculine charac- 


ters are often role models (the two 
main ones so for are Jordan, the 
son of the dogwoman, an androgy- 
nous sort who dresses in petticoats, 
and Henri, an army cook who 
idolises Napoleon). “1 wouldn't be 
naive enough to think that the 
males 1 come across on the sneer 
are sensitive, tender or loving," she 
says. “But I am prepared to put 
considerate men in my books 
because it may trigger something of 
the sort of man they would like to 
be. 

“When I wrote about Jordan and 
Henri 1 got a lot of letters from 
young men, especially in the armed 
forces, confiding that thqr did ay in 
their bunks and fed insecure with 


the he-man image. It may be that 
the macho conspiracy is so deep 
that men can't write about it. I 
don't know." 

Ms Winterson only selectively 
engages in the outside world. On 
the rare occasions she is not 
working, her time is spent brows- 
ing in the British Library, cycling, 
looking after the cats, and seeing 
her friends. “1 love my partner very 
much but she doesn't come first, 
work does," she says. “It wouldn't 
make any difference if 1 didn't see 
anyone or do anything. I would still 
be able to write." 

She is prepared to enter the fray 
over certain issues and campaigns 
for Stonewall the homosexual pres- 


sure group, because, someone 
needs to fight for our rights", but 
she dislikes being fomous. “I / I 
want to buy courgettes I do not 
want to be asked about art or have 
tracts of my book quoted at me." 

Her first four novels have 
broughi both excellent reviews and 
financial independence, but if her 
fame fell away, she could easily 
leave her liberal, comfortable 
world. “I would live anywhere to 
keep on writing," she says. As 
Napoleon says in The Passion: “I 
go on writing so that I will always 
. have something to read." 

Written on the Body wiH be published 
by Jonathan Cape on September 10 
(£13.99). 


Far from being Uberated by democracy, the Russian professional woman is finding life even more harassing 


CREATING THE STYLE FOR THE MORE MATURE 


I 'll pay," .whispered the 
elegant American to Ella 
Levdansdkgya . when be 
realised his sweet talkmg was 
getting him nowhere. Ms 
Levdansdkaya, a teacher of 
English in a Moscow second- 
ary school earns extra income 
as a guide-translator fin 1 bua- 
ness entrepreneurs in the new 
Russia. Site describes the west- 
ern commercial types as “Joint 
Adventurers”. 

The end of the planned 
economy has meant unern-- 
ployment for many profession- 
al women. Nowadays, aity^ 
thing goes. Corrup tion, 
pimping and prostitution were 
not unknown in Russia before 
perestroika. It is just that now 
they have come out of the... 
closet - • 

The American asaned 39- 
year-old Ms Levdansdkaya, 
divorced with a 14-yeapokl 
daughter, that he could have 
had any of the other women in 
the room. However, having 
employed her as a translator 
all day, she and she atone had 

become the object of Ks lust 

Sexual harassment has al- 
ways existed, in Russia now it 
is endemic. Ms Levdansdkaya 
says she knows of one care 
where an office job was adver- 
tised and a very pretty woman 
was selected from a huge 
crowd of over-qualified 
hopefuls. She found she was 

expected lobe the “office wife , 

serving her four mate co- 
workers sexually, as well as 
doing the shorthand and 
typing. 

“It Is almost impossible for a 
wtstem woman to understand 
the stress and pressure of a 
Russian w oman ’s life," M s 

» says. "Western 
tint me." . 
ting and guid- 
her the advan- 
g and beftiend- 
and now she 
hand luxury to 
iyed in Surrey 
4th an English 
befriended in 


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would spend it giving private 
lessons to earn a little more 
money for my daughter". In a 
society where most have very 
tilde; envy and competition 
often sour potential relation- 
ships. Female companionship 
and friendship are a luxury. 

According to Ms Levdans- 
dkaya, Russians are sexually 
prudish. Lesbianism “doesn't 
exist". The mere mention of 
Martina Navratilova elicits 
scorn, contempt and titters. 
Homosexual acts between 
c on se n t in g males are flfegai 




M s Levdansdkaya's 
English language 
students were rehto- 
tam to study Oscar Wilde's 
The Picture of Dorian Grey. 
solely on die baas of Wilde's 
homosexuality, which was 
described in the preface writ- 
ten in the 1980s to have been 
cawed by the excesses of a 
bourgeois lifestyle. 

Ms Levdansdkaya studied 
English linguistics and has a 
degree from the Mosoow Insti- 
tute erf Foreign Language, 
now called the Moscow Insti- 
tute of Linguistics. Her career 
has been a utile miracle in 
fcdf as she not only had to 

overcome die disadvantages of 

bong a woman, but also of 
being Jewish, although her 
Jewishness is confined to her 
ethnic heritage. 

Ms Levdansdkaya. married 
for seven years, has been 
divorced snee 1986. "We 
have a tor of wry unhappy 
marriages because of the prob- 
lems of economic dependence 
and housing." 

One thing that really fasci- 
nated her during her trip to 
England: “All those middle- 
aged couples bolding hands 
and tossing each Miter hrito 
and goodbye: They mist have 
been married - fin* 25 or 30 
years. Is that really possible in 
thewestr 

Judith Steiner 

O Tint IfMQp^MK lad HB 2 


fryiapm nf indulg ence , the real luxuries for women in the new Russia are female friends and happy marriages 


Moscow, , her daughter -Euge- 
nie attended a local .state 
school for a month. - . 

Talkin g about her hfe m 
Mosoow ewer coffee .with a 
group of women in, west 
London, she was amazed by 


.. . Site spoke to several worn- Ms Levdansdkaya. “Life is 
an's organisations during her terrible for all people in Rus- 
Viszt and relates how s “Third ■■ aa; paitioilaity for women." 


Vodd" woman advised" her. 
“Tell foe Russians not to 
destiny the statues of Stalin”. 
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problems. The men hate con- 
doms which axe; in any rase, 
not eaaty available. Ms 
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.through .knowing the right 
person, giving the doctor a 
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America are betas invad- 
ed; plants and animals 
from Europe and else- 
where are pushing out native 
species and damaging habitats. 

Many of the invaders are 
thought to have arrived by ship, 
sucked up from their native homes 
as ballast, to be discharged later 
into the water and estuaries of 
Canada and the United States. 
Other invaders have also come in 
ships, but as rock and sand ballasts. 

An estimated 156 alien plants 
and animals are now in the Great 
Lakes, with more than one-third of 
them having arrived in the past 30 
years, an increase which coincides 
with the opening of the St Law- 
rence Seaway, according to a report 
by the Great Lakes Fisheries Com- 
mission. based in Ann Arbor. 
Michigan. 

Native animals and plants have 
already been victims of pollution 
from man-made chemicals 
dumped in the waters by lakeside 
factories and chemical plants. In 
Lake Ontario fishermen go armed 
with books that detail the age of 
species, such as lake itoul based on 
their size If the fish caught is over a 
certain age. it is either thrown back 
or put out with the rubbish at 
home; the catch is calculated to 
have built up unhealthy amounts of 
metals and other potentially poi- 
sonous pollutants in its system. 
Added to such man-made prob- 


lems, some scientists fear that the 
arrival and consolidation of the 
alien life forms, which have few or 
no natural predators in their new 
home, could further push many 
native creatures to die brink of 
extinction. 

The most widelypublidsed in- 
vader is the European zebra mus- 
sel. Dnzissena polymorpha . which 
is believed to have been dumped by 
an unidentified vessel into Lake Sr 
Clair in 1986. 

Since then, the mussels, which 
are I * 2 in long, have colonised 
thousands of miles of Lake Erie 
and Lake Ontario, even as far as the 
Hudson, Susquehanna and 
Mississipi rivers, killing native 
dams and crayfish, often by 
suffocation. 

Controlling the spread, a job 
currendy being undertaken by the 
United States fish and wildlife 
service, is expected to cost £2.6 bil- 
lion over ten years. 

Now a new mussel threat has 
been identified in Lake Ontario by 
scientists at Cornel University's 
biological field station in Bridge- 
port. New York. Specimens were 
first trawled up from deep waters of 
the lake’s southern basin in 1 990. 
but were dismissed as being de- 
formed zebra mussels. 

However, studies in the Erie 
Canal prompted scientists to take a 
longer look and they have conclud- 
ed that the bivalve is a different, 
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Crustacean at risk: the Daphnia, an important source of food for small native fish, is now a prey for the European spiny water flea 


finned by genetic tests.it has been 
christened "quagga", after an ex- 
tinct relative of the zebra mussel. 

Studies undertaken in June have 
found quag gas. which can be 20 to 
SO per cent bigger than zebras, 
living in large numbers among 
zebra mussels, a life-style which has 
been observed in the Black Sea and 
which offers dues to the origin of 
the ship which brought them to the 
Great Lakes. 

Bivalves are not the only threat to 
the natural wildlife of the Great 
Lakes. Scientists are also becoming 
worried about an alien fish called 
the ruffe, Gymnocephalus cemuus . 
which is a member of the perch 
family and was first seen in 1987 in 
the St Louis estuary of western Lake 
Superior, near Duluth-Superior 
harbour, the second busiest port of 
the Great Lakes. 

According to a report in the 
magazine Science News, the fish is 


an aggressive competitor that tends 
to dominate any ecosystem it 
enters. 

Nearly two million are believed 
to be now spawning in the estuary 
and ruff have been found ta 
Thunder Bay. Lake Ontario, and 
parts of the St Louis River, where 
their arrival has been accompanied 
by a fall in species such as die 
walleye. 

The success of the alien, which at 
Sin long is considered too small to 
be of interest to fishermen, is 
believed to be linked with its early 
maturity and ability to spawn in a 
variety of conditions. . 


A nother unwelcome immi- 
grant is the spiny water 
flea. This tiny insect be- 
lieved to have been 
brought over in the ballast of a 
Soviet tanker, arrived in Lake 
Huron ta 19S4 and has subse- 


quently moved into lakes Erie, 
Ontario, Michigan and Superior. 

The flea. Bythotrepehes 
cederstroemi , likes to feed on a 
microscopic crustacean. Daphnia. 
which itself feeds on algae. What 
concerns the researchers is that 
Daphnia represents an important 
source of food for small native fish, 
which could be reduced ‘if the flea 
eats too many crustacean. 

Studies have found that this may 
already be happening, with some 
populations of Daphnia having 
decreased since the flea's arrival 

Not all alien life forms have been 
brought by ship. Oriental 
weatherfish. Misgumus anguilii- 
caudatus. are believed to have 
escaped from an aquarium whole- 
salers into a river which drains into 
Lake Huron. The Eurasian milfoil, 
a plant used in aquariums, got into 
the Great Lakes as long ago as 
1 880. Now it is pushing out native 


plants and dogging up waterways. 
The purple loosetrife, Lythrum 
salicaria. which is damaging im- 
portant wildfowl habitat and has 
pushed out cattails, could have 
arrived from Europe as a garden 
plant or possibly with imported 
sheep a century ago. 

Nevertheless, the recent arrivals 
and their potential for widescale 
eco-sysrem damage has prompted 
the authorities to act From Novem- 
ber. transoceanic ships will be 
required to unload fresh water 
‘ ballast and take on sea water before 
going into the Great Lakes. The US 
coastguard is calling foravoluntaiy 
scheme to operate nationwide. 

Concern for die Great Lakes has 
also prompted Congress to order 
the National Biological Invasions 
Shipping Study, which will try to 
calculate the amount and source of 
ballast entering fresh waters 
throughout the United Stares. 


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D own in the cold blackness 
1.000 metres beneath the 
surface of the Pacific, one 
of Professor Russ Davis's creations 
stirs. Barely perceptibly, it starts to 
rise. Less than half an hour later it 
breaks through the waves and 
announces its arrival to an orbiting 
satellite. Then it falls silent and 
sinks back down again to continue 
its undersea voyage. 

Called ALACE {for Autonomous 
Lagrangian Circulation Explorer), 
it is one of about 1 00 similar probes 
launched since J990 that report 
back to their creator once every two 
weeks. Together they are giving 
Professor Davis, an oceanographer 
at the Scripps Institution of Ocean- 
ography in La Jolla, California, 
insights into die currents that drive 
the oceans deep beneath the waves. 

The circulation of the oceans is 
intimately linked to the Earth's 
dimale, distributing the sun's heat 
around the globe. Yet for years 
sdentists have known little about 
these currents, especially those be- 
neath the surface. 

The first attempts to map them, 
made ta the 1950s. involved drop- 
ping probes from ships and trying 


Scientists have 
found a way to 
track the movement 
of currents 


to follow them. This proved hope- 
lessly expensive. It became obvious 
that the probes had to be capable of 
looking after themselves. 

Starting ta the early 1980s. it 
took Professor Davis and his col- 
leagues ten years to crack the 
problem: "What took longest was 
trying to generate the energy for 
going up and down for a long 
time." Professor Davis says. 

This involved making ALACE in 
the form of a 1 20-centimetre long 
aluminium tube with an overall 
density just a little greater than 
surface sea-water. This ensures 
ALACE will sink. But as it descends 
it travels through water which is 
under ever-greater pressure, and 
thus of increasing density. Eventu- 
ally, about 1 ,000 metres below the 
surface, ALACE encounters water 
of the same density as itself. It then 


stops descending and floats around 
under die influence of the currents. 

To make ALACE come up again, 
an onboard battery-powered pump 
pushes oil into a membrane across 
the base of the aluminium case. As 
the membrane expands, the overall 
volume of ALACE increases, 
though its mass remains the same. 
The density of ALACE thus de- 
creases again, and the. probe rises. 

Once on the surface, a one-watt 
transmitter announces Tm back!” 
to Argos, a French location system 
on board an American weather 
satellite. This gives Professor Daws 
the latest position of his ALACEs to 
within a few hundred metres, 
enabling him to work out die speed 
and direction of the currents. 

By the end of the century. 
Professor Davis hopes an armada 
of 1,000 ALACEs will have given 
him the first detailed maps of the 
currents that swirl beneath the 
waves. The results will form part of 
the World Ocean Circulation Ex- 
periment. an international project 
aimed at understanding the link 
between oceans and dimate- 



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HOMES 7 


Bidding for a better address 


wife. 


he rales of u-oe are now 
familiar. Last week, ii was 
the turn of businessman 
Stephen Ensor and his 
who looked on as bailiffs 
changed the locks on their eieht- 
bedroomed. £350.000-Georgian 
mansion at Bembridge. Isle of 
Wight. The house. like 35.750 
other; in the first six months of the 
year, was repossessed. Mr and Mrs 
Ensor and their children had to 
move into one room ar a council- 
owned hostel used by ! I other 
dispossessed families. 

One family's tragedy, however, 
could soon become another fam- 
ily's new home. The trade in 
repossessed properties is brisk, the 
bargain; plentiful and the choice 
wide-ranging. The property market 
is under the hammer. The only 
problem is. where? 

Lancashire and Leicestershire 
could be the counties for house- 
hunters to sran looking for the best 
bargains. .An analysis of figures 
from the Lord Chancellor's depart- 
ment last week by Roof magazine, 
published by the housing pressure 
group Shelter, showed' that the 
trend in repossessions was up 30 
per cent in Leicestershire and 14 
per cent in Lancashire. 

Lenders aim to sell through 
estate agents without drawing un- 
due attention to the fact that the 
sale is by order of the mortgagees in 
possession. By law. lenders are 
obliged to realise the highest price 
available for such property. High- 
lighting its repossessed provenance 
could prejudice buyers who may 
think they can beat down prices, or 
dissuade' the squeamish who are 


Repossessed property is often a bargain. Rachel Kelly reports 
on how to find the best buys at estate agents and auctions 


w o: u.f c\?:r 
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sensitive to the idea thai they are 
capitalising on the m iseiy of others. 
Fear of visits from bailiffs in pursuit 
of unpaid bills also deters some 
buyers. The financial complications 
arising from living in a repossessed 
property can be far-reaching. An 
inirial credit-card application, for 
example, is likely to be denied 
because of the address. 

Nationwide Building Society, the 
country's second biggest lender, is 

typical in its approach to 

disposing of repossessed 
property. The society tends to 
sell such homes through a 
local branch of its own chain 
of estate agents. Halifax 
Budding Society also has its 
own estate agents, and many 
of the other big lenders have 
links with particular estate- 
agency chains. 

The' price at which a 
repossessed home is put on 
the market is a mean of the ^ 
lender's and the estate 
agent's separate valuations. The 
marketing is in the hands of the 
estate agents, but most lenders 
insist on the use of standard 
marketing tools: the property 
should be advertised in the local 
press using a colour photograph of 
a certain size, and the safe board 
should be of certain dimensions. 

Lenders usually review pricing 
with their estate agents at monthly 
progress meetings. The desire to 
sell (often to pocket mortgage 


indemnity police* taken out 
insure against loan l:s.>es. 
weighed against the attempt 
achieve the nishes: prices. 

Even if buyers a?;_ Nation,*, 
asks its agents not to tcii buyers that 
a house has been repu^cvsNl "We 
don't instruct agents to market ;! as 
a repossessed property.*' Rosemary 
Callender of Nationwide says. 

Many of tite erutuinc* received 
by Nationwide from bu-.ers are for 


fo 

jrj Lvufo.l;. 

'.ower than 

i7.arN-.iir, 
ln'ir p:. 

ic 

rhofv ri.aC.hc-d ;r.r 

'■L-sh rttafo 

M mki-.t-i 

:o 

acc-n;?. a!ihot:gh 

'.c FKCli L-t' 

wo-biir 

[tic 

cjurhar.ue attract bu, 
a^jtijr.'rc-fewro-ij-cil r 

.r* "Viror.h 
r-t-ftrv when 

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Mjlr'ngi 




we ctir/: *e:! t: in th„- normal way 
VYe tend • ;* uw auction' for proper- 
ties which hi'-r problem*" either 




structural ones, or le-ca: nr.es with 


Before you put up your 
hand to buy, your 
finance must be in place 
and your solicitor should 
have checked the lease 


lists of repossessed properties. 
The Council of Mortgage Lenders 
(CM LI also report; that such re- 
quest; are now among its most 
common. But either orcanisrJon 
issues such lists: the CML doesn't 
have nne and the Natinnw-ule 
doesn’t want to. 

"We will tell callers which estate 
agents we use. but leave :! at that." 
Ms Callender says. 

Audioning prut>erties is a last 
resort for lenders because the prices 


leases, NJ-- Cal lender says 
The piom ir. rcp-; S'^'*nn saies 
Ita.- !vo.J :c a in fman- 

csJ advisor?. r vho will guide 
the tentative buyer ihraugh a 
purchase.-. G.irwuv Auction 
O.nsulianc;.. for example, 
was se: up earlier :his year so 
help buyers through auction?- 
and pro. ides client; with ,t 
Sift k prepernef about to g..« 
under the nam.mcr 
s-pecd is '• :ial. Most auc- 
tion JluuseS issue c.i talc-cues 
weeks before the actual saic. 
ProfptKave buyen. should 

_ check iocai newsraptT; for 

tonheuming auctions and 
phone around the bie auenor.- 
cehi — AiLotp & Co. GA Property 
Semes*. Stickles 6. kern. Ellis & Co 
— :n be pul on their mailing lists. I n 


Ti-nbndce 
’ io*d pi.ulu ", . -.p.ir.a fo pa 
y-siuiYelfoui m :r.e :r= fo 

jucii- «•■..” she .a-- "i i'.aa dr... 
across :r.e cauv d-: ft' 

diicumen^ c' rr. ;:-rier 

jnd my ld»v" ir"* 1 ■■■ — .-u: 

U'i'j unrci.ahic £' -.r-.’r..r.a -.ad :. 
be Stand-iiL-ii.cr.o 
.M-. R -.j. .-L-.r-.d r. 
Hubbard* L -.:.r.: s :: 

Rain ham. hie - ” m as ■•'.*£ 

buye r 5 w j-j.". I r — 

paid a fee ir. \: • rti-.r i-cnder 

cage on the A * f ey cr.-rie. 
;.iu: by :itr L-rder pr-sc an a: :!t 
property --.a. c .-:-.a ^ r.div.-.r. 
ana -.he jr.'.rv..: jr ■'her : 

Biddir.u -'arrd i- 

there -J.il r. • t r'c- ' V 
and M- R.--.. 
h,iught iht ;'.a‘ vj-.v" 

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sr.e 


addition. Fax wise can provide a list 
m al! property xreiu' offered 


which nas laneil rrej-. n> revrroe 


;a-,s. 
paying 
.■'boil'd lil'.v 
£4 3.0' 


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hu: c.m still rv h-iugh' up after the 
auction. 

Before yc-u pa: up >our hand to 
buy. your fir.ir.ee muri b; ir. place, 
jyiur solictor should nu\e checked 
the lease, and the surxcx - should be 


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AS KL£Y gdns. 8W I. A RUHBtve 2 
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£166.000 DA LINTONS 1771 
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CHAHMma. sunny flat WIO. 1 
Mm. tom. « M lnq tm. rutty 
ktt uLwwdxsl Lsr tor. 


tt WMft 07MO, PAM 071 

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CHBHA supera fum. I b«L 
flaL Inr reap. IUD Mn 
HL/dttbo. Inrge pvt roof ter- 
ran. OriM vWw. yjieur a . 
ttMBpw. Trt Q90a P61B81 


PUMECHS8EA SW3 UBnmt 
and floor owns wtm m 
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mm OCK to tuba fttou IM 
major road network. Largo PB 
MB 4lh floor, mauad flat to 
nwiuwmii Mii«ir P wImiJJ 
Ur 13. bed IS bu> 14 wHh IBM 
itoButai. Folly m. known. 
m adam tti Uw a B i . CflfljOOO 
non STO 1086 Sunday and 
_afltf_4 pm Monday to Friday. 


•WIO Original, arum Kudu, 
ten window up Door cauvar- 


cioMQO. Tab an aai ogee 


■ Sth Ku/ChabM, 2nd 
Flat wtm tonnadiato 

for sale. Pf ny t u n 

Odna - 81 yr tab 2 bod. odd 
onBooa. (> wnn oaut in cup- 
boards} Had. KBctL Rocep Rot 
Bailuuuui A MBItt W.C. Nr. 
rube. CtOODDO ■ no OOBBM. Tck 
OTH5B2 8097. 


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locatod One ft w M i i house. 
Good condOton. Potential to 
exten d, beauoral garden. « 
beds. 3 rea. go*, gas ctv 
BUttuabi C62&0O0 r/b otter* 
tavned- SPcfclys OTI 794 82B* 




Newly- refartjlshEd Rats lor 
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Westminster Cathedral 


1 Amb nudes At bob a 
Hettni mrier SWI Ctesa to 
Victoria sMtoa. on uctosiM 
dmhv bM b 1 ittuHo »S 
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MUinv. 


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aPACtOua brigni 3 dbto bed 2 
ncm apartment uim triple 
anect views, newly retur- 
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ExccOmt duality. Off « pfcng 
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BWB. ttnmacutaie 2 b e d room flat 
on 2nd floor, of nctoiUy eon- 
verted btaktmg. large enmnee 


f/f kUrimv f/f 
marble bathroom, video entry 
teteohone. central healing. 

aiaret ttynein and fxtcOfnt 
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BAiUZJUN spec 4 bed. 2 fir end 
letr twn me. nr W. Dulwich 
HR. Loveo - nvnm gdn * petto. 
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£89.000. 061 670 9589 


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RICHMOND 2 ged VK terr tor. 
beeuUfidJy rcftnti, e- 1 *” + 
town 0 nan. off-Mrect gkB. 
dthqt odn. no cham. mdeb sole. 
£106.000. 081 940 6663. 


TWICKENHAM Cole Park Rond, 
del house, a Air bcdmrk 2 
reoro rmo. boffinn/WC. down- 
stabs doafcrm. ktt/dto rm. 
sunny gdn. garage/wurkshmi. 
comp lefln tnhrd 10 a hlBti 
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rm, jzmfr. ka/brbfa rm, 
taSUf rm, master near tort 
/man no ml Imkrm, guest 
MKfirim a ad dtar rm, 2 
/anker beds, further bath, tea 
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OWftOO 

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mtUCHAM Devon. Tsa ririwnl 
madly Mine on 4 floors. 8 
beds. 2 B aiba, lo roof worn 
South petto, private courtyard. 
FH. £119.000 0002 298822 


Cathedral 2 mom. 
1930-1 5 bad lend. Pottehed 
wood doom. Front and rear 
narden £S6XIOO. 0392 422199 


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DEVON & CORNWALL 


It DEVON. 4 bedroom barn con- 
version. geh. did priai. 1 acre 
arounds * outbusoiBB. beaua- 
ful news of Exmoor. 2 nuns 
from RHS Roaemoor Gardena. 
Reduced to £140X100 for Quick 
salt. Tel: 08068 668 


BALOOSnC 3 bed toe. 8 mtoe 
wen. harbour. Bat I r«0. creek 
views. £87 jOOO 0648 842074 


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SOUTHWOLD. SITFOLK 
Wby ml retire with si tocemc? 
Atobdaatnl tae VKuagm proptny 
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mAdrram. 

Craeed floor Fba «Hh ^ tear re o i m , 
bydrocr. abosxsr no 6 lodo. indcn. 
ngngcJgtomadgirMfl 

riOOdOO per neck m Toum tat 
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CBKM8U Norfolk 4 Bed on bun- 
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see views GCH Dhle flinC 
immac £12Sk 081 670 2183. 


MORFOLK/Surrcdk borders. 30 
ndns mland Elevated peaceful 
rural surrmmdtnBB. Det Vic- 
lanan fermhouee In on ■» 
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Ref 0322 £128.000. TMe Wm 
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COT8WOUM Maugerbury 
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ktl/hreak. 6 beds. 3 bams, roa- 
•ervalary. utUny. cellar, coocn 
toe. i/gooL sue. twaghtfUl am. 
£390X100. Hatley Uoyd 
TMrpe 0481 830731 


COT5WOLDS Broad Caopden 
e n tr an ce [mb 2 r knehen/ 
break, rioak room. 4 beds. 2 
baito Landscaped prim. 
Garage £ 226X300 Hurley 

Uoyd Thorpe 0461 831853 


WINDRUSH village toe. 2 
ikos. kit. 4 bed. bam. gdn. 
planning for extension, stun- 
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A fine Edwardian house requiring comprehensive 
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Hall, 5 reception moms, 10 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 
det stable block comprising 2 bed cottage, s/c flat, 
garaging and stables. Gardens , paddock, ooodland 
and frontage to East Dan River. 

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YOUR HOME BATHS* IF YOU DO NOT PEEP DP REPAYMENTS 
ON A MORTGAGE OR OTHER LOAN SECURED ON IT. 


KANTS, DORSET. 
AND I.O.W. 


SUSSEX 


EASTBOURNE L-vavtdual 2976 


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lavra- into, station 2.400M fl 
TUxvn ll Vina £166.000. Wm 
tm dr-jUK. Tr. C323 806229 


LO.W. Tolland 2ay Plno-ii 
victorus nume wsi ^ccme. 
Suprrb poc^cn cncrioutmc 
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dna 3 tod Mm* e, S i/e fjrn 
hal flats 5 A : tod c; mm 
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pcacr. rx toato £296.000 
rvrviM onotoa 0983 782216 


EAST LAVANT. 

Goodwood 6 
Toady return del basaalaw. 
Km dli. 2 rec 3. kit/b'M. Igr 
riudv/tod 4. 2 further beds, 
tom. ailch. due Btaz-goe. od»s 
aai farmlmd. £197.600 i/h. 
SOltte A Son (Q24J| 782626 


1.0. IN VVr.tnoc nisi to Bargain 
of i he ;w. rt*w apanrocni. 
supreu wi nnra Inriudoa ad 
canmnu DsmUs 0983 862259 


RYE INI Cast 9—w Perfect 

M.-HII country* exttta g*. : 760. 
Inglenoak. iurgr duung nag. 
Aga 3 beds. 2 baito. coaag* 
gdn. No cham £; 40.000 0424 
882640 ih! ox 0424 863636 >oi 


POOLE cjvarnclec house xhan at 
of use lor real h am. Qxed res- 
dans, feaairia? Urge panelled 
drawmg room. 2 receps. sun 
Munge cloak. Ige bneak/klt. 
udiicy. S beds. 2 baths. lovely 
gens ‘v acre, nod Bowtng 
green, v dose aeewfiri !0 
I3C1S drive oraches A marina's 
C246.00C Q2C2 693066 


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BARNET |ge 5 bed flaL naanswn 
Mock, views green DeB. good 
dec order, opposim tube, cr 
Sham, £72.960. 071 739 B647 
dm ■ 081 440 7228 Bflrr 9am 


KENT 


Sroanl corrv'cri 2 bed 
grd fir 6/!ac.-ig ennsv toe 
ndendld moe terr (even BOn 
rural vsewa all ser-.*ir*r 
£136.000. 0392 862453 


BRECON Beacons SI Pk. 
PonEneaihvB-jghan Superb 4 
bed del house. P an or ami c 
meurt am views >sacrr. Amr- 
Bve -waierfans- vlflage 400 
yards (ram Max Boycrt golf 
course, primary school and 
pub. 20 ndna M4 30 mins 
Swansea. 40 mins Cardiff. No 
duu c: 60.000 -0636 720731 


YORKSHIRE 


TO RENT Wetherinr Yorkshire. 
Lua nna wtm spccmcuiar 
views a bed 6 indoor swim- 
mine POOL Avail September. 
£2.000 pem 0937 083980 


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age. well laid eu- gen greentov ; 
£170 000 Juscmma fteie UK 
avail Te! 374 636244 


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CHANNEL ISLES 


GUERNSEY Due lo bustneoi relo- 
cation BeauUfulb' refurbished 
open market house with men. 
srre sea views over Cobo Bay 4 
beds. alt with eneuiie. 
Poggenpotil kitchen, urtmacu- 
latvtond £ 620.000 or consider 
pari r» as pari payment, pref m 
SE area. 048 1 57B19 lEvesL 


JERSEY, sutota n tta l 4 bed Muse, 
sea-i-lews. Swimming POOL 
games complex. Sauna. 1 ♦ 
acre. Jersey lax sunn 
£450.000. Tel. 0732 741048 


FRANCE 


BERRY TOuram*. large selection 

of old houses. Uemlefs. altrac- 

Uvoly priced Euro UiunobiUer 

Eng SDtal Ph: 0:053 64 58 62 

96 Fax. 84 38 48 33 


COTE <fA2UR Annum Shm rung 
pmUicHise 3 Pecirooim. 2 bauv 
num. baicorues. bug* prtvue 
roof garden. Panoramic views. 
Swimming, imim. 

£195.000. OTj 722 6661 


COTE D* AZURE Above Menton. 

■op apartmeni m small modern 

luxury nrovencnl sd-la Conmlei 

wnn swimming pool and taunts 

court. 2 bed. bam room. 2 w.c. . 

Idlcnrn large mm 6 terrace 

Garage. Cannot be overlooked 

Tranquil -wrung, beautiful view 

down v-oOcy lo co as t FF 
500.000 08: asa 9534. 


PORTUGAL 


QUINTO DO LAOO Musi sed 

Bov la Lakesde immaculate 3 

to d . i i . vine, fully fu.-ms.-ife. 

hardly toed More rr» Healed 

Private pool, man-, extrs;. on 

market lor £ 2 f < 0.000 - MSI 

offer secures TeL 0638 
667886 Eves & W/cnCs 


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AIMUNECAR^ 


COSTA DEL 

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ttoo of ARwwcar. Span— tot 
scnruiy. only ore lew from 
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Sana Monads Pnces fron just 
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504131 


CA1PE . Cosia Brava. In an ongl- 
ruu budding designed By Bom! 
due sea and old vtUage- Free- 
held duplex, sleeps r>. Fully 
equip * turn Prtv park. Pool 
£28.600. A free week noliday If 
buying after vlril To let 
£180pw. Tti. 071-373 2310 
after «pna. 


COSTA rial SOL Nr Esteparu. 
beach from villa. 3 bdrm. 2 
Mtuns. roof terr. own gdn * 
txtmm gaits, s/ pools 6 tennis 
Os CftO.OOOono 061 718 2B6S 


COSTA B LANCA Fabulous CaU- 
fomlan style luxury home. 
C.C80ON 0902 746408 


MARBELLA HILL CLUB. Qulel 
aaa exclusive 4 beds/oaihs. 
large imam. sea and 
mountain views. ILm pool In 

lovely garden Gardener, maid 

and full administration service*. 

Owner enunlgra&ng hence 
L Price for gulck sale- £198000 
TeL 04066 3086 


FRANCE 


COTE D'AZUR Oialeauneuf 19C 

charming alone roaage. 3 bed. 

good condition, pool, ma views. 

bargain- FF1 48M lavafl lo let 

also Tim kandm FNAZM 
Ph/r*» 0.033 93772136 


FRANCE - All moons. Gonoors to 
Chateaux. Golf devrlopmenD. 
Free catalogue 071 486 2733 


LANOUEDOC Stow bum image 
rmusc 7 mis sea. 2 tods, both 
eastdlr. living room, egiapped 
IdL cloakroom, sun terr. no 
gdn. £26.500 0227 464217. 


WANTED 6 France, by prof cou- 
ple. mid GO'S, long lerm. low 
rental in return for gen main- 
lenance will vacur lor swum 
toUdavs Phone 08: S7B 4827 


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GREEN COTTAGE 
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IBM BR1ST9L. If. a unaJ 
hamlet of ccifiev pcprrtn of 
this, a vm Jri* impresari* 
detartwd home, of indivtdusl 
eurarier 5ecr£>^bedi.3 with 
ctedUtc. 4 rec. enerrotu* >de- 
fufly r.nsd lotOMSi wipi eirjjtg 
area. 2 fla m azm wtm we. 4C 
games room Ideal fsr wiertam- 
tno. 3 trtptr garages, aa war. 
retnoir doors and garaae en- 
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LEGAL SECRETARY 

Wc one a young expanding senators practise in 
Mayfair, requiring a secretary for the Head of our 
Entertainment Department. You wi need fast 
accurate audra sMb on Word Perfect CL I), with o 
minimum of 2 year* legal experience hvafved 
with the music business. You wff need to be we* 
spoken, have an exodknr telephone manner, 
and the c£#ty to work cafrnJy and efficiency 
under pressum. 

cJl! 6,000+ benefits. 

RECEPTIONIST 

We also need a weO spoken, confident penon to 
run our reception area and operate a busy 
switchboard. You w3 need to be smartly dressed, 
with good common sense, and a mrimum of 2 
yeareraception experience. 

c£ 10,000 + benefits. 

PLEASE APPLY M WWTMCw ENCLOSING TOW 
C.Y. TO> SMa Brittoe 
MepatfaftCev 
52/54 Maddox Street 
London WIR WA. 

Tefc 071-495 3003 / Fare 071-409 T7« 


The Royal Warrant Holden Association 

Senior Secretary 

Hie Royal Warrant Holders Assocuttar. require 
a mature and experienced person to act aa a 
Senior Secretary to die Association. This Isa 
responsible pasties requiring accurate 
secretarial skills, knowledge of modem 

secreta ri al equipment (Je, Word Processors etc), 

Initiative and an interest in people; knowledge of 
book-keeping and PAYE is cnemial as the 
appointment include* the day to day 

admm jnatkm of the Aw ndarinn’ i finewrw*. Th» 

Senior Secretary also organises the Association's 

major functions. The successful applicant will be 

aged between 30-50 and will reoeve a Hilary of 
£19,000pa, free medical insurance and other 1 

benefits. The position is pensionable. Apply in . 

writing ewelweing a C.V. and contact twiyj»hrm«» 
number ta- 

The Secretary 
The Royal Warrant BoUm 
7 B mlimham Gate 

London SW1E <QY 


Project Coordinator, Hampstead 
to £19,500 

Superb opportunity for ambitious 
PA/Secretaiy looking to make a 
real career move. Apple® 
Macintosh™ experience essential 
as is event or conference 
organising. Your presence at 
every event is vital so the 
freedom to travel is important. 
Good secretarial skills are a 
prerequisite and your ability to 
lead will put you at the forefront 
of this young and exciting 
management consultancy. If your 
ready for a real challenge we d 
like to hear from you. Call 
Christine on 071-839 1500 or fox 
m rm-jQvi i^nn 



Dealing PA 

£25,000 pkg 

Are you looking for a role that will 
mnihnw all your skills and stretch you to 
the frill? Based on the trading floor of a 
major City bank, you will be the 

Head of Saks in the day to day running of 
his division. Varied dudes range from co- 
prdi yiflfrng tiuvd arrangements, scnuzmi 
and pre sent ations, to keeping track of 

monthly rnrnTTircanrwi The ideal candidate 

will have a positive and outgoing 

p ^wmalii y, tanking ex perienc e (preferably 

trading floor), and spreadsheet knowledge. 
Skills: 90/60/WP. Age: 22-32. 

Please telephone Catherine Ferguson 
on 071-377 8827. 

Crone Corkill 


CAREER CHALLENGE £19k+bank bens 

Looking to develop your role beyond the purely 
secretarial? As PA/Administrator with this 
progressive investment company your career will 
assume a new dimension. In addition to providing 
efficient PA support to the MD. you will run the 
division in line with assigned budgets, attend 
all meetings and supervise support staff. / 
IF you are A level/degree educated. 
confident and professional with 
excellent secretarial and jr jCnt 

communication skills. /JgKd^ 

call Julie Cooke on f \tMfT 

0714080424 T X* 


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MORE THAN A PA 
£17,500 PLUS BENS 


rou wui assist me company becrefary o/ Ota prestigious store gr<r, 
with general PA/Sec duties, but also Juft lu an important role refath i 
ike varied and interesting administration leading age 28-45 (no oh 
Ideal exn, legal, property, studying far Company Secretary exams- 
Dress all phis other bens. 

Call Lyw» Lot an 071 496 €951, ^ y 

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p PA to Chief Executive 
|Y Opportunity to Develop. 

Software Engineering Co. 

G Compethre Salary, West End 

We need an experienced secretary. The 
requirement is for someone in ther «arfy20's 

with A Levels, excellent secretarial skfis, a 
friendly professional roomer ond on aptitude 
an a personal computer using Microsoft 

Word and Excel. 

If you possess the above quaDtes, can provide 
excel l ent references and have the desire to 
develop you career with us please: apply 
mrtmodkitety in writing to Vivian Lawrence 
enclosing a curriculum vitae. . 

PDG C ompMlf Aided M— yM un t ltd. 
Suit 4, 44 Bdw Street, London W1M 1DH. 
(No Agencies) 


High Flying PA 

£19,000 + mortgage 

Blue chip finance company needs a PA to 
coordinate the work of their top team and 
provide frill back-up to the dynamic MD. 
You will become completely involved in 
all aspects of the business from the 
preparation of budgets, to supervision of 
junior s ecre taries and general 
administration. There will be a high 
degree of autonomy for someone with 
senior level experience gain ed i n the 
financial sector. Skills 90/60/WP. Age: 
25-35. A levels required. 

Please telephone Catherine Ferguson 
on 071-377 8827. 

Crone Corkill 

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London El BXY 
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SECRETARIAL/ MABKETING 
POSITION 

Mayfair fra wed company seeks an ambitious, 
■ ppm sdbPrisxter with 

marketing fliur to devdt^J s major mfezence 
puhticaDOP. 

Must be presentable, articulate, dedaive, 
organised and able to worit nxirptademly. 
Interest in Russia an Advantage, but not - 
essentiaL Age 25-35. Attractive package. 

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of Enquiry/ ■- 
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Secrdary for an 
Independent 
School ia 
Hampstead. 

PLEASE APPLY M 
WRITING, ENCLOSING 
C.V. TO BOX NO 9903 


CORPORATE LAW 
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^ Court of Appeal 


LAW 9 


Law Report August 26 1 992 


Queen’s Bench Division 



Regina v Tower Hamlets 
London Borough CotmtiL Ex 
parte Latfhr Rahman 
Regina v Same. Ex parte 
Ferdous Begum 

Before Lord Donaldson of 
Lymington. Master of the RrUk 

1 on} Justice Butler-Sloss and Lord 
Jusnce S taugh ton 

[Judgment July 301 

A person suffering from mental 
impairment who was homeless or 
threatened with homelessn ess was 
not prevented from making an 
application for housing under the 
Housing Act 1985 on the ground 
that he had insuffidem capacity 
either to form the intention of 
applying or to understand that an 
application was being qjj hk 

behalf. 

The Court of Appeal so held ft 
granting an application for ju- 
dicial review by Lutfur Rahman of 
a decision of Tower Hamlets 
London Borough Council that by 
reason of mental impairment he 
had not made an application for 
hcusuig under section 62 of the 
1985 Act and 

(ii) allowing an appeal by 
Ferdous Begun from Mr Justice 
Rose (The Times December 12, 
1991) who had dismissed - her 
application for judicial review of 
the same local authority’s decision 
that she too by reasbn of her 
mental condition had not made an 


sppficarion for housing under the 
1985 Act 


Mr Robert Camwath-QC and 
Mr Terence Gallhran for Lutfur 
Rahman; Mr David Watidnson 
and Mr Leslie Thomas for Fen) ous 
Besum; Mr Ashley Underwood 
and Miss Lisa Gwvannetti for the 
local authority. 


LORD JUSTICE- BUTLFR- 
SLOSS said that the appficims' 
primary argnmern was that there 
was no tine to be drawn between 
those with sufficient understand- 
ing to make their own applications 


or to consent to applications bens 
fcha£ 


made by others on their bdtidL 
'and those with no comprehen s ion 

whatsoever who were homdess or 

threatened with homelessness and 
whose plight ought to be consid- 
ered and redressed within the 
framework of Part UI of the Act. 

Their secondary argument was 
that both applicants had in fad 
sufficient understanding- of the 
concept of hometessness and the 
need to seek help' to come within 
the meaning of an appBcam who 
knew he was making an applica- 
tion or consented to an application 
being made on his behalf. 

Her Ladyship accepted Mr 
Carnwafo’s further argument that 
the question of who was an 
a p pli c an t was not a matter for the 
d eci si o n erf the local housing 
authority to be chafien&d on the 


ground of Wahusbuy un- 
reasomd^nessfAssoaored Pnwin- 
rial Picture Houses Ltd v 
Wednestnny Corporation QIQ48i 
1 KB 223)) bm was a jurisdictional 
tea as to the point at which the 
hooting authority's duties came 
into existence and feH to be 
reviewed on Khauaja principles [ r 
v Secretary cf State for the Home 
Department. Ex pane Khawaja 
(1 1984] AC 74)). 

Consequently, if the housing 
authority could be shown to have 
come to the wrong conclusion, die 
court might, if appropriate, sub- 
stitute io own deriskm. 

Mr Underwood had argued rhai 
the structure erf the Ad pie- 
sopposed in applicant of sufficient 
undosnndmgn beaten make 
an application or to consent id its 
being made on bis behalt 

Those incapable erf such under- 
standing did rat come within the 
Housing Act 1 985 but their needs 
were to be met by the soda! services 
within die structure of the National 
Assistance Aa 1948. 

. Her Ladyship would reject that 
argumoiL There. was nothing in 
the 1985 Act to demonstrate that 
section 62 provided hwriia* of 
mental capacity to be surmounted 
before an application could be 
accepted. Section 591 1 He) conrem- 
plaed that applications would be 
made by those tinder a disability or 
who were -vulnerable. 


Sudt legislation was in accord 
with die expressed policy of gov- 
ernment departments to accept 
within the community those who 
might in the past have been shut 
away in kmg^tay institutions. 

The purpose of the framework of 
the overall legislation was to 
indude those with mental Alness or 
hand top without reference to an> 
definable cut-off point of menial 

capacity. 

An applica t ion might be made 
by a person with capacity u make 
it, or by another with the aj>- 
. pticam’s consent or by someone 
on behalf of a person entitled to 
make the application but unable to 
do so through mental incapacity. 

In that laner case the maker of 

(he application hod to demonstrate 
reasonable grounds for doing so 
and for acting on the actual 
applicant's behalf, and dm he was 
acting bona fide in the interests of 
the person unable to aa without 
such hdp. 

An application by a scD mean- 
ing busybody would not be an 
acceptable application under sec- 
tion 62. 

The Master of the Rolls and 
Lord Justice Stoughton delivered 

flnnfn rrmg jurigre#i^re 

Solicitors: T. V. Edwards & Co. 
Stepney: Howard & Foster. Can- 
ning Town: Mr J. E. Marlowe. 
Tower Hamlets. 


Courts to 
beware 
outsider’s 
promise 


limitation period for 
serving amended writ 


No duty to house dependent children 


Regina v Bexley London Bor- 
ough CoundL Ex parte B 
Regina v Oldham Metropoli- 
tan Borough CoundL Ex par- 
te G 

Before Lord Justice Ralph Gibson. 
Lord Justice Ned on and Lord 
Justice Scon 
(Judgment August 6] 

A local housing authority was 
under no obligation to rehouse a 
dependent chad whose parents’ 
application under section 62 of the 
Housing Aa 1 985 for permanent 
accommodation had been refused 
on the ground that they were 
intentionally homdess. 

The Court of Appeal so held in 
dismissing appeals by ft B, aged 
five, and (ii) G. aged four, against 
the dismissal by Mr Justice Herny 
( The Times April 20) of their 
applications for judicial review of 
(I) the derision of die London 
Borough of Beefy that the council 
had no obligation to rehouse B 
and (ii) the refusal by the Metro- 
politan Borough of Oldham to 
entertain an application by G to 
entertain his application for hous- 
ing on the basis that it was a 
transparent device to . get around 
the provisions of the 1985 Act 

Mr David Watltinson for B; 
Miss Brenda Morris for Bexley: 


Mr George Warr for G; Mr 
Timothy S crater for Oldham. 


LORD JUSTICE RALPH GIB- 
SON mid that the decision of Mr 
Justice Henry in the present case 
was decided before the Court of 
Appeal derision in R v Tenter 
Hamlets LBC. Ex parte Rahman; 
R vSame. Ex parte Begum. 

In his Londshipls judgment, 
there was nothing in Rahman 
which required a rejection of the 
reasoning of Mr Justice Henry in 
foe present case. 

There was nothing in foe Hous- 


ing Act 1 985 whirii suggested that 
Parliament contemplated an 
application for housing by a four- 
year-oU dependent child. It was 
impossible to hold that Parliament 
intended to require a housing 
authority to make bousing avail- 
able for such a child. 


need. A construction of die legisla- 
tion argued for on behalf erf foe 
applicants was repugnant to com- 
mon sense. To hold that a heahhy 
dependent child could qualify for 
priority need by reason of infancy 
would beconiiaiy to the intention 
of Parliament. 


The disqualification of in- 
tentional homelessness turned on 
deliberate actions which could also 
be taken on behalf of a chikL 


His Lordship agreed with Mr 
Justice Henry that a dependent 
chiki could not quality for priority 


Lord Justice Nolan and Lord 
Justice Sant delivered concurring 
judgments. 

Scholars: Norton & Co, Totten- 
ham: Mr L J. Birch. Bexkyheafo; 
Mr P. Johnson. Oldham: Mr 
Neville D. Phillips. Oldham. 


Appealing against amendments 


Regina v CJwyd County Coon- 
riL Ex parte A 

Section 8(1 Kb) of the Education 
Act 1981. as substituted by section 
237 a£ and paragraph 84 of 
Schedule 12 to the Education 
Reform Aa 1988. provided the 
parents of a drikL for whom the 
local education authority main- 
tamed a statement of the child’s 
special educational needs, with a 
choice as to their right of appeal 
agarrw amendments to foe state- 
ment ufa-i* it hwm reconsid- 
ered. either to an appeal 


committee of foe local education 
authority, or. under section 8(6). to 
the seaetaiy of state. 

Mr Justice Simon Brown so held 
in the Queen’s Bench Division on 
July 22 when he granted a 
declaration that the applicant's 
parents were entitled to appeal 
again to the appeal committee 
against the education authority's 
final statement of foe applicant's 
special educational needs. 


HIS LORDSHIP said that foe 
introducafion of paragraph (b) by 
the amendment in the 1988 Aa 


had. by its plain language, brought 
foe applicant a choice of avenues of 
appal under section 8 and there 
was ho inconsistent and repug- 
nance between foe two. 

Since foe appeal committee's 
derisions did tun bind foe au- 
thority. whereas the secretary of 
state could amend the statement as 
he thought appropriate, foe par- 
eras' best way forward was by an 
appeal id foe latter unless they 
thought that foe authority would 
be influenced by a fresh appeal to 
the appeal committee. 


Atto r n ey- g ener a l v Mantoroa 
Before Lord Justice Woolf and Mr 
Justice P01 
{Judgment July 31| 

When sentencing an offender, a 
court should only rarely consider 
accepting an undertaking by a 
third party to pay compensation 
instead of or in support of a 
compensation order against the 
offender. 

The Queen’S Bench Divisional 
Court so srcwTt in dismissing 
proceedings for contempt of court 
brought by foe Attorney-general 
against Jack Homer Manmura 
who was alleged to be in bread) of 
an undertaking given to South- 
wark Crown Cain to pay £25.000 
to foe victim of a theft committed 
by his son. 

Mr Andrew Collins. QC. for the 
Attorney-general; Mr James 
Munby. QC, for Mr Mantouxa. 

MR JUSTICE PILL said that a 
court dealing with an offender 
should not put itself in the position 
of determining the sentence which 
it considered appropriate on foe 
hasis that it might haw to impose a 
sanction upon a third party. 

The poinT had not been argued 
fully before die court, but his 
Lordship's view was that it was 
only in rare droimsiances that a 

court should consider accepting an 
undertaking from a third party 
instead of or in support of a 
compensation order. 

In the instant case, the proce- 
dure foDowed did not create a 
situation in which an undertaking 
could be enforced by proceedings 
for contempt 

The plainest indication would 
need to be given that an undertak- 
ing as distinct from a preparedness 
to give an undertaking, was given 
and was accepted by the court as 
such. 

The terms of foe undertaking 
made and accepted, including foe 
dan by which payment was to be 
made, would need to be plainly set 
out Bearing in mind foe atn- 
sequenoes which could follow, the 
undertaking would be reduced to 
writing and retained with the court 
record" Formality would be 
required. 

Thus even if. contrary to his 
Lordship's view, h was proper to 
accept an undertaking from the 
respondent, the procedure in fact 
followed did not create a situation 
in which it would be appropriate to 
make an order against the respon- 
dent on foe present application. 

Solicitors: DPP: Ewings & Co. 
Aneriey. 


Bank of America National 
Trust and Savings Associ- 
ation % chrkmM and Often 
(The Kyriaki) 

Before Mr Justice Hire: 

[JudgirtT.! July “!] 

A writ wt-ch was amended id 
include rew defendants had to be 
served en those defendants within 
foe iimistior. period if h wes not to 
be time booed. 

Mr Justice Hist so hsid in the 
Ccmmerria! Court of foe Queen's 
Benfo Division in. inter alia. 
granting a summons by nine 
detnuar^b seeking an drier to set 
aside amended writs served by foe 
pUbafis. Bank of Amenta Nat- 
ional Tras and Savings Associ- 
ation. who rioimed as assignees of 
various marine insurance policies 
issued by foe runs defendants 

Mr A'-cart SdradT for foe plain- 
tiffs. Mr Richard Aiksns. QC and 
Mr Se2 Oliver for foe defendants. 


MR JUSTICE HIRST said dun 
the defendant argued that on the 
plain and natural meaning of 
section 35(3.- cf foe Lhnhation Aa 


! O80 foe court was debarred from 
allowing a newdairo involving foe 
addition or substitution of a new 
party to be made after foe expiry of 
foe relevant limitation period. 

In foe present case, by Order 15. 
rule 8i4) of foe Rules of foe 
Supreme Court, as construed in 
Ketteman v Hansel Properties Lid 
Q 1 987) AC 189). none of the 
defendants became ponies until 

the writ had been property 
amended and served on them, wdl 
outside the limitation period. 

For foe plaintiff, it was argued 
foal, on foe proper construction of 
section 35(3). all that was required 
was that the plaintiff should obtain 
leave to amend within the limita- 
tion period and no more. 

The defendants* construction 
would, it was submitted, be ex- 
tremely anomalous seeing dial an 
original writ, provided it was 
issued within the lim nation period, 
could be served outside that period 
provided foe general time limit for 
service was not ex c e eded. 

While he accepted that Order 
1 5. rule 8(4) was conclusive of foe 


date when a new- defendant be- 
came a party it was not conriusiw 
on the limitation question and did 
not have the efiea of establishing 
foil foe daw of service was a 
critical stage for deriding whether 
foe daim was time barred. 

His Lordship accepted the 
defendant " submissions. In the 
case of a new defendant an order 
which permitted service upon him 
outside the limitation period was 
bad, as it was only at foe date of 
service that foe daim was eff- 
ectively brought against him. 

Thus Order 15, rule 8»4| was 
directly relevant and applicable. 

HLs Lordship also rejected the 
submission that Kcneman could 
be distinguished because section 
3511} of foe I960 Art had re- 
instaxeri foe theoiy that joinder of a 
new- defendant related back to foe 
date of issue of foe writ It was m 
order to preserve the principle that 
joinder did not relate tuck that 
section 35(3) to (5) had been 
added. 

Solicitors; Hill Taylor Dickin- 
son: I nee 6 Co. 


Lack of co-operation condemned 


Regina v Campbell 

Before Lard Justice Wadans. Mr 
Justice Owen and Mr Justice 
Herjy 

{Judgment Juty 27) 

Lack cf co-operation between foe 
police and Rastafarians over 
arrangements about identification 
parades was to be condemned. 

The Court of Appeal so stated 
when rticmkgin g foe appeals of 
Samud Campbell and a a>appd- 
tanr against their eanvkn&ns. on 
November 20. !990 at the Central 
Criminal Court (Judge Denison. 
QC and a jury) of attempted 
murder and murder. 

Mr Stephen So'Jey. QC. as- 
signed by the Registrar erf Crim- 
inal Appeals, for Campbell: Mr 
David Paget for the Crown. 

LORD JUSTICE WATKINS, 
giving the judgment of foe court, 
aid that it hod been argued that a 
confrontation arranged in Camp- 
bell's case was unfair and that the 
udge should have allowed cross- 
examination on the riicumsxances 
leading up to it 

Campbell was a Rastafarian and 
at the identification centre con- 
cerned it was said that it was 
impossible to arrange identifica- 
tion parades when Rastafarians 
were charged with offences 
because other Rastafarians would 
not volunteer to make up a parade. 


It was deplorable foal a section 
of the community denied its own 
members the protection of the 
provisions of the Police and Crim- 
inal Evidence Act 19S4. The 
sooner that was made dear to that 
section of the community foe 
better. 

Their Lordships would speak as 
forcefully as they could in 
condemnation of the lack of co- 
operation between the police and 


Rastafarians over arrangements 
about identification parades. 

If foe present situation was still 
foe same, foe Commissioner of 
Police of foe Metropolis should 
ensure foal the strongest possible 
attempts were made to ensure 
conditions whereby identification 
parades could be held where 
Rastafarians were charged with 
offences. 

Solicitors: CPS, Central Courts. 


Judging delay only 
on the facts 


Regina v Newham Justices. 
Ex parte C 

In deriding whether a prosecution 
was an abuse of foe process of foe 
court because of delay, justices 
should not attempt a comparison 
with the fads of another case but 
should deride the matter on foe 
basis of the fads in foe case with 
which they were concerned. 

The Queen's Bench Divisional 
Court (Lord Justice McCowan and 
Mr Justice Popplewell} so stated on 
July 2 1 . dismissing an application 
by C for an order prohibiting 
Newham Justices from continuing 
with committal proceedings 
started on November 4. 1991 on 


the ground that a fair trial was no 
longer possible because of the 
delay of 1 0 10 1 ’ years between foe 
alleged commission of the offences 
of rape and buggery and foe 
initiation of committal 
proceedings. 

MR JUSTICE POPPLEWELL 
said thar foe justices had been 
asked to compare foe facts with 
those in R v Telford Justices. Ex 
pane Badhan 01991) 2 QB 78). 

Reference to the fans in other 
cases was a mistake. Applications 
to stay proceedings on the ground 
of abuse of process depended 
entirety on their own facts. 
Comparison with other cases was 
of no value. 


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Road. Word. Eases. IG1 1 JD. on 

Tuesday the am September 1992. 

ol 10.00 o'clock In the (era noon. 

for u>c purposes mentioned In 

Sections 99.100 ano.lOl of me 

*au Acl 
A list of the names and addresses 

of me company's CradUon wm 

be available for uwectkai free of 

charpe at Uw oflloce of Scoal 

Davis Rose. Trsvhol House. 186- 

192 High Road. word. Essex. IC1 

ijq between 1CLOO an. and 
4.00 p jtl as rram Monday 7Ui 
September. 

Dated dUS 20Ui day erf AafKM 
1992. 

BHARAT MOR2ARIA DlraCtOT. 


R TUCKER 

IBCTCHERSI LIMITED 

ndwe neceiventilpl 


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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, 
pursued! lo O sctlon 4# of die 
Insolvency AO 1 986. that a mn- 
era) meetlno of the ansecured 

credit arv of me above-named 
com party wo bo MM at die 
offices Of Messrs Panned Kerr 
Former. New Cardan House. 78 
Hatton careen. Louden EC IN 
8J A on 3rd September 1992. ■* 
n.OO a.m. for die purpose of 
having a report laid bdSrc tee 
meeting and of nrartns any expia- 
nadon Uun may be Btwen by the 
joint Admimacradve RecMvera. 
Creditors wheat data* aro 
wholly secured are not eulUeAlo 
attend or be reeresenHd. Plaast 
note that a creditor ii .amBHM to 
vote only if he run seal to Hie 

Joint Administrative Receivers 

not later than 12 noon on 2 Sep- 
temper 1992 detain In wrtttng of 
i he debt that he claim* to ba due 
to Mm from uw company and me 
claim has been duly admitted 
under U>c provtelons of The InaM- 
vency Roles 10B6 and mere has 
been lodged wiiti iha JoUU 
AdmlnMradve ReceNWS aiy 
proxy which Uw creditor intends 
lo be used on his behalf. 

Dated HUS 18 day of AogilM 19W 
JS Band 

doth i AdmuUjOgUvr Recefrar 


TO: ALL WHOM fT 
MAY C ONCE RN 
WE. nocen KETTH LETHEM 

who has resided for me pH ton 

norths at Kmwdl Croon Farm 

House. KersweU Green, worces- 

ler. WHs 3PF and carried on the 

trade or caUi-p durtm the afore- 

said period e: -. moruhsof Qua- 
am y Oir> and NIGEL 

EDWARD bariO who haa 
nsidod for the past six months at 

3 Lovrntfl House. LovehlD Lane, 

Langley. Buck*, and corned on 

u* trade or calling during Um 

aforesaid period of Hx mPBimot 

company Director DO hehebv 

OIVE you NOTICE mat U is our 

Intention to apply at the LK*»jW9 

9wt lone lor the Uconsing Dtv- 

own of HOUNSLOW to be-neld at 

the Magistrates Court. Hpnwnil 

Road. Fettham. . RluaineK on 
THURSDAY Ui* IOOi W of 

SEPTEMBER 1992 at 3.00 a m. 

in me forenoon for the grant to 

IS of a Justices’ ON Ocon ee 

autnonauia US to son Oy retaflal 

the prcmloca BfflMte M 18/20 

CMswtck High Road. London W« 

m Uic saw Ucensmo Dtv&on 

Inwvicntino Uvaor Of afl descrlp- 

Uom for ON uw 

premises. 

’JWBSI UNDER OUR. HANDS 
THIS 19TH DAY OF MXHJ8T 
IW9 . 

PK LETHEM and 
N.t-WATO 


NC CROWOROFT 
ENGtNEERINO LMITED 
ON RECEIVEBSHIP) 
NOTICE B HEREBY (BVI 


RbstL-Sl AMn. 


bar 1990 at llJO a 

Receiver's report wm 


due to tom tor thei 


Bnctcet Road. IS> 


toes who rtc Hie Receivers i 

copy at the above address. 


son or by winy and a proccy 


before the meettaB- A eecurad 


Ida debts altar dadu 

of ms security 


film. CredBors who 


to ■ 


Dated the at*, day of auqu 
1992. 

DM GHOSH ‘ 

■total A dm l nla n a dve Receiver. 


ON RECEJVERSHB*) 


Inge Ltaiued i 

Watartrouse. 


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resent the creditors. 


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copy at the above address.. 

OretUlon may veto either to 

■on or by proxy bad a p 


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6.00 Ceefax (49404) 630 BSC Breakfast Nows (61626715) 

9.05 Defenders of the Earth. Space age cartoon (6706978) 9-25 Why 
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Definitely not retiring: Thora Hird, Lynn Redgrave (730pm) 


730 Fighting Back: Thora Hird 

9 CHOICE: Thora Hird would probably not thank you for saying she 
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when you discover that for 30 years she has lived with crippling and 
intensely painful arthritis. But she has carried on almost regardless, 
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10.10 Film: Hamlet (1948. b/w) 

• CHOICE: Laurence Olivier called his second Shakespeare film 
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730 Live From the Proms 

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wedding for Marietie and Charley. Starring David Jason. Pam Ferris, 
Catherine Zeta Jones and Philip Franks (r). (Grade) (s) (3591) 

9.00 Film: Hostage (1987). Action thriller about the bond which 
develops between an escaped prisoner and the lonely widow she 
takes hostage Starring Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton. 
Directed by Peter Levin. Continues after the news. (Orade) (3355) 

10.00 News at Ten with Alastatr Stewart and Fiona Armstrong, weather 
(86201) 1030 Thames News (472143) 

10.40 Rim: Hostage. Condusion. (Orade) (501713) 

1 130 Hollywood Report. A British view of Tinsel Town (s) (55404) 

12.00 Rim: Never Give an Inch (1971). Powerful drama starring Henry 
Fonda as toe patriarch of a logging family who breaks a local strike 
in order to meet a timber contract Co-starring Lee Remkk and Paul 
Newman, who also directs (90538553) 

2.10am Alfred Hitchcock Presents: There Was a Little Giri. The 
flirtatious relationship between a young girl and her stepfather 
turns to murder (6099843) 2.45 America's Top Ten (s) (24992) 

3.15 Videofashion. Backstage before the French collections premiere 
(19189911) 340 Quiz Night Pub and dub team quiz (20780737) 

4.10 Grand Ole Opry. Country and western music (r) (4252891 1) 

440 fifty Years On (b/to). Vintage newsreels (72817992) 

5.00 Three's Company: Like Father, Like Son American comedy 
series about three flatmates (12640) 

530 ITN Morning News (67027). Ends at 6.00 


CHANNEL 4 


SJM Channel 4 Daily (2368256) 

935 Radar Mat Rom the Moon (tVw). Scence-ncton senes 
f7237591) 945 Focrfur Cartoon about a stray deg (2399201) 

935 Get Smart Secret agent spoof (9824713) 

1035 ram: Hold My Hand (1938, b/w) Musical comedy, starring 
Stanley Luptno in an adaptation of htS own play, as a newspaper 
financier whose young ward accuses him of embezzlement 
Directed by Thornton Freeland (7183249) 

1145 Air Post A look at the GPO's early airmail service (4913256) 

12-00 More Winners: tfis Master's Ghost The first of a three-pan 
mystery drama from Australia (r) (14572) 

1.00 Sesame Street Today's guest is the country music singer Wayion 
Jennings (r) (23220) 

2.00 film: At War With toe Army (1950, Ww). Military lace staring 
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as entertainers, trying to adjust to life 
in the army. Directed by Hal Walker (757959) 

340 Spaceboume. Nasa space film (4288423) 

4 0 0 in Search of Scotland's Larder. The last in the series examines 
how the word "Scotch'' is used to promote beef and iamb in 
Europe (r) (442) 

430 Countdown. Words and numbers game (s) (626) 

5.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show. A discussion on girls who date older 
men (s) (2315355) 



Leader of the pack: super bunny. Old Holbun (530pm) 


530 The Bunbury Tails: Scramble. The cartoon adventures of a team 
of sporting rabbits (s) (847775) 

6JX) Treasure Hunt: Australia. Anneka Rice ffie ever Sydney in search 
of dues (r). (Teletext} (43084) 

7.00 Channel 4 News with Jon Snow. Weather (594355) 

730 Comment A viewer's opinion on a topical subject (7461 52) 

830 Brookside. Merseyside soap. (Teletext) (s) (5607) 

830 Anton Mosimann — Natu ratty: Fid) The innovative chef 
prepares a meal using often overlooked and cheaper species offish 
(r). (Teletext) (7442) 

9.00 Coast of Dreams. The first of two programmes about the British 
ex-patriates who have made their home on Spate's Costa del Sol Ir) 
(Teletext) (1997) 

. 1030 The Golden Girts: A Piece of Cake. Wise-cracking comedy with 
the Miami matrons. Sophia (Estelle Getty) recalls her fiftieth 
birthday (r). (Teletext) (17171) 

1030 (Bits of) Josie. Highlights from toe series featuring toe versatile 
comedienne, actress and singer Jasie Lawrence (r) (471 1 33) 

11.15 Mojo Working: The Rolling Stones. A celebration of the group's 
30 years in the music business (s) (341 997) 

1145 Stidcy Moments on Tour vrith Julian Clary . The last in the series 
of cosmopolitan game shows is from Scotland (r) (s) (420794) 
1230am Four-Mations. The series of Estonian animation concludes 
with two films. War and ffeff (9989008) 

1.10 film: Mughal-E-Azam (I960). Epic adventure set in 16th-century 
India. Prince SaRm dashes with his father. Emperor Akbar, over his 
romance with a dancer. In Hindi with English subtitles Starring 
Dilip Kumar. Madhubala and Prichviraj. Directed by K.Asif 
(95962379). Ends at 445 


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• Via the Astra and Marcopolo nteIRtas 
6.00am SkifW 196336) 630 Mrs. Pepperpot 
15064084) 645 Ptayaboul IS2352JS) 740 
The Di Kal Show (722046) 9-30 The Pyramid 
Game (621331 10.00 Let's Make a Deal 
(39576) 1030 The Bold and the Beautiful 
(30O46i 11.00 The toeing and the Restless 
(39978* 12JXJ Si Elsewhere (85084) 1JJC E 
Street (33794* 130 Geraldo (77317) 230 
Another World 12594IJ3) 3.15 The Brady 
Bunch i7 15423) 345 The DJ Kai Show 
(7366261 530 DiH’rent Strokes (6220) 6.00 
Baby Talk (31331 630 E Street (77>3i 7.00 
Alf (65911 730 Candid Camera (39971 8.00 
Bafflestar Galactic* Return of Start***. 
(87125) 9.00 Chances Australian soap 
<225391 10.00 Studs (55355) 1030 Doctor. 
Doctor Comedy (31775) 11.00 The Streets 
of San Franccoo with Michael Douglas 
(43171) 12.00 Pages from Styled 


• Via the Astra and Marmpolo sateflhes 
News on the hour 6.00am Sunrise 
(4001084) 930 Niqhdme (607751 10-00 
Define 517981 1030 Fashion TV 1964421 
1130 iapan Busness <9427404) 1145 
Business Report (2203794) 1230 Good 
Morning America (67930) 130 Good 
Mom mg Amenta (75959) 230 Ni oh time 
181201) 330 Our VtfarM (95201) 430 
Fashion TV (3510) 5.00 Uve At fine (41959) 
630 Newsline (55959) 830 Fashion TV 
(83341) 1030 Newsline (33591) 1130 ABC 
News (28171* 1230 Newslne 131350) 130 
ABC News {19447* 230 Beyond 2000 
(46850) 330 ABC News (12195) 430 
Second 2000 (4771S) 530 Newsine 
(89263* 


SKY MOVIES* 


• Vm the Astra and Marcopolo satellites 
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12JX) Twice Upon a Tune (1983) Animat- 
ed fantasy M 7268) 

240pm Everyday Heroes (1 990). Teachers 
try JO overcome smaN town racism (98)33) 

3.00 The Fourth Man 1 1 990c A boy IP® to 
impress ho father (82423) 

4.00 Hash Gordon 1 1 980*: The football star 
battles to save the earth (22741 

6.00 A Little Bit of Heaven; tas Item) 
(67278341) 

740 EntMtammem Tonight (931846) 
840 Johnny Handsome (1969* Mickey 
Rourke as a con-man seeking revenge 
(S7189) 

ULOO dean and Sober (1988) Michael 
Keaton ines to detodty (3J103572) 
12.05am R3.V.P. 1 19841. A film maJer 
wants to "audition" some girls (9672631 
140 Relentless (1989): A manor, loiter 
dioases metme Ircmi a Oreoory 0948263) 
3.10 She's Out of Control <1389): A is 
Transformed by her stepmother (31 77669) 
440 Heart of Dixie (1989): The ovi rights 
movement affects three students *87 1 8553). 
Ends al 6.00am 

TOE MOVIE CHANNEL 


Company (9355) 7.00 Designing W< 
(8133) 730 McHale s Navy (5539) 


Women 

840 

Dock*. Doctor (7881) 830 Wbrting it out 
(3688) 9-00 Hogan's Heroes (61978* 930 
Lucy (50423) 10X0 Kids <n the Han (29065* 
1030 McHale s Navy (387 1 3) 

SKY SPORTS 


• Via the Astra and Marcopolo sateTites 
630am Snetch (53084) 7.00 American 
Sport (62828) 840 Musde Night (123871 
9-00 Stretch (974421 930 Super Trax 
164355) 1030 Boots* H“ All (12404) 1130 
Stretch (17133) 1200 Football Show 
(24572) 2.00pm Pod (45065) 100 
Motorcydng (60171) 600 Torque (2794) 
6.00 News (6295911 6.05 Warenportj 
(443862) 7.00 Indy Car (63959) 9.00 
Netbusters (362681 930 Austral an Rugby 
(16065) 10.00 News 1674775) 10.05 Rugby 
(5921317) 1130-130am Indy Car (33881) 

EUROSPORT 


• Via the Astra and Marcopolo satellites 
6.15am White Cradle Inn (1947. t*v) a 
Swiss woman adopts a refugee boy 
(590881) 

8.15 The Gnomes Great Adventure 
Animated adventure (6939971 

10.15 te Chateau de ma Mere (1991) 
Marcel Pagnol's memoirs 16781 33) 
12.15pm Mutiny on the Buses (1973): 
Spin-off from the television comedy 
(963713) 

2.15 Wild a the Wind (1957)' A wriewer 
(names te wife's sster (950249) 

4.15 GaBavants (1988): Aramaled arte Iwe 
in a magical land (8393 1 7) 

6.15 Ransom (1975V Sean Cannery deals 
with terrorists (84288 II 

8. 15 Colombo: No Time to Die (19917. 
Peter Fafc plays the detective (8222617!) 
9.55 Nightmare on the 13di door ( 1 9907 
A hotel's secret floor a occupied by a saurac 
cult (4671404) 

11.25 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 
(19781: Aliens assume the identity of, and 
then replace, humans (862572) 

135pm A Private Function (19857 Alan 
Bennett comedy with Mxtiaet Palm. Maggie 
Smith and a pig (155027* 

34*5 A Show of Force (1990): A journalist 
investigates an FBI cover-up (152911) 

445 Toe Longest rflght (19727 A gtfl is 
kidnapped C3946089*. Ends St 535am 

TOE COMEDY CHANNEL 


• Via the Astra sateflfte 
8.00am Tennis ATP Tour (3631 7) 1040 Top 
20 (938071 2) 2_00pm Tennis C905442) 5JJ0 
Surfing (8355) 530 Touring Car Champion- 
ships (75152) 630 News (40978) 730 
AtWencs (48978) 830 News 0046) 9.00 
AtNeua 10.00 Tjc* Boring (50336) 11.00 
Eurofun C68S1) 1130 News <35688i 

SCREENSPORT 


• Via the Astra satellite 
7.00am Eurotncs (74065) 730 Revs (S3S72) 
B.oo Lonomide (7213?) 830 String 
(71404* 9J00 Windsurfing (95084) 930 Go 
(62997) 1030 EurobiCS 1912681 T1JD0 
Snooker (65065* 1J» Speedway (226261 
2.00 Eurobcs (7249! 230 Formula 3 
(6772997) 230 Athletics (7603688) 330 
World Cup Qualifiers (1 1790065) 600 pro 
Superb S’ e (8607) 630 Thai Wck Box (46) 52) 
730 Pwersports (44152) 830 Global 
Adventure Sport 19220) 9-00 Work* Cup 
Quafifiers (35539* 1030 Golf Report 
(92997) 11-OO-T. 00am Basebal (67084) 

LIFESTYLE 


• Via the Astra sacrifice 
400pm Mr Ed (8626) 430 Punlcy Brewster 
(7510) 540 Green Acres (8997) 530 Lucy 
(8862) 6-00 Monkees (5775) 630 Three's 


• Via the Astra satelfita 
IQJIOarn Rarrbo 07046) 1030 Gameshcnw 
(2626539) 1035 Great Chefs of San 
Franseco (2694930* 1135 The loan Rivets 
Show *3162997) 12.15pm SaUy Jessy 
R^rhaeT (3262775) LOO Lunchboc (68404) 
130 SeJl-a-V*aon 13526572) 2JB Rafferty's 
Rules (4091442) 3.00 Women of the World 
(4152* 330 Tea Break (8073S71) 140 
PhySb (1339249) 4.10 D«± Van Dyke Show 
(5279! 71) 4A0 Gameshow (4535065) 530 
Sed-a-Visan (296881) 610 Safy fcsy 
Raphael (726607) 7.00 Selba- Vision 
(630626* 10.00 Music Videos (8919152) 
230-3 30am Top Five (982441 


RADIO 1 


FM Slereo and MW. 4.00am Bruno Brookes 
with The Early 9/eaPfasi SF«w (FM onM 600 
Simon Mayo 9.00 Stfricn Bates 11.00 Radk> 1 
FM Roadshow with Nicky Campbell from Gvflynqvase Beach. Falmoulh 1230pm Newsbeai 
12A5 JaUj Brambles 300 Sieve Wnght in the Afternoon 600 Neale Jams Mega Hits 630 
News 92 7.00 Neale lames Evening Session 9.00 The f Aan Erefce Sunshine Show 1600 Nv±y 
Home Goes into the Night 12JW Paul Gambacdrn (FM only) 

FM Stereo 430am Ate Lester Tne Early 
Show 615 Pause Thought 630 Brian 

Hayes- Good Morning UK I 9.15 Pause (or 

Thought 930 Ken Bruce 1 130 Jimmy Young 2.00pm Glorto Hunmford 330 Ed Siewan 5.05 
John Dunn 7.00 Score 730 Star, Hu^lL Man of Sal Pump and foretHtter songs (r) 600 
Jim Uoyd with FbB on 2. Indudes Maiev Kameras from Hungary. Fnfol from Sweden and 
Chns Wood. Ray and Cilia Fisher Irom Bnwm 9.00 Nigel Ogden; Tte CTganat Entertains 9.45 
Peter Goo-lwnght s Racho Times 10.00 Bombay Beat MH« Ailbui presents the music of the 
tmftan cinema 1030 Debbie Greenwood and Pari Cows 12.05am buz Parade with Cvgby 
Fanweatba 1235 Steve Madden ,v>d* Night Ride 

News arid spar; cn die hour until 730pm. 
600am World Service New^Kur 630 Danny 
Baker's Morning Edition 930 Take Em 1030 
Johnnie Walter with The AM Alternative 1130 Student Ctvsce 92 wilh Anne Nightingale 
1230pm Cull Heroes: BilSe HoWav 130 News Update 1.10 BESS Worldwide 230 
Sportsteat vmh Roa fang 430 Rve flail 7.15 The 0m Oheet tot The Leal-# (too! t* Pt.ilppa 
Pearce tri 730 Gary Lineker's Football fight 10.10 Hit die North, u-.a njx) Sport 12 . 00 - 
12 . loam News: Spcrt 

All limes in BST 430am WofM Btciress 
Report 4A0 Travref and Weather Nev« 445 
News and Press Revew in German 5.00 
Morgcnmagaan 520 Tips fur Tounslen 534 Ne/rj in German 530 criope Tijday 539 
Weather 6 00 World Now. 630 Lorv*^. Matin 639 Weather 7.00 WcrttJ News 7 J09 News 
About Britain 7.15 The Wpdd Today 730 Mendten 8.00 Nev.-tdesi 830 Dewtapment 92 
9.00 World New; 939 Words of Faith 9.15 Missies improt-aMe 930 Back ro Square One 
KW0 World News 1035 V/Odd Business Repcrt 10.15 Country Style 1030 Great 
Newspaper 10A5 Sports Roundup 11.00 News Summary 11.01 Omnibus 1130 Lonjra 
Midi 11-45 Mmaganac»n 1139 Buuness Update Midday NewsdeA. 1230pm Meridian 
130 World Mews 1.09 News Britain 1.15 New Idea; 135 V;nurs in a Nutshell 1^5 
Sports Roundup 2-00 Nwshour 1 X 0 WojVJ H?iVS 3X5 DurtooV 330 Off Ihe Sfdt; I tJw w 
Why the Caged Bud Sings 3.45 A Month in the Country 4.00 World New* 4.15 BBC Enaftih 
430 Heute AltueS 5X0 World and Brttrth Newt. 5.14 Tiayri 5.15 BBC English 530 
tomlres Swr 614 toe* Ahead 620 World Business Report 639 New! Summary 630 Heute 
AfcftMfl 7-00 German Features 7.54 News in German B.OO Wcrfd News 8.05 OiTJpok a an 
htmpe Tontyit 930 Wodd New; 9.09 riie World Today 934 Worts of rarth 930 
Superpower 10.00 Newshow 11.00 World News 11 . 09 New ; About Bntar. 11.15 Sports 
imsrcmonal 11 AS Spurts fioundi* MdrightWona News 12.05am World Busmess Report 
1115 From Ogr Own Cortesoonden; 1230 Mdhiradr 2 1.00 Nevaitegc ijfl The H.wL. 
^ 2.05 Omtoc* SaoSSk 

^ Farmuig W.arid 3.00 Mewsdesk 330 Sperts Iniematicmal 4.00 World News 
4.09 V/oevs 01 Far** 4 l15 S pern Roundup 


WORLD SERVICE 


VARIATIONS 


ANGUA 

As London except: 1Q.00arrv10.25 FarmFy 
Theatre (2762997) 2.15pnV245 Gardening 
Time (173423) 635-7.00 Angfia News 
(903794) 

BORDER 

As London except IOlOQam-1035 Famfy 
Theatre (2762997) 2.10pm-3.10 The 5*. 
Road 37892491 S.10-5.40 Home and Away 
(4501084) 600 Lookaroond Wednesday 
(249) 630-730 BiocXOirsters (201) 1130 
Granada Scxxer Night (SI 5201) 1235am 
The t wing Riders ( 1 52462 1 HJ0 Donahue 
(9606992) 2.10 CinemAttractions 
(7201911) 2A0 The Truth About Women 
(9503621) 110 Ftfrrr Qmnmy. the Burglar 
(864244) 445 About Britain (44547343) 
610-5 30am Job finder (8835485) 

CENTRAL 

As London except .10.00am-1035 Famty 


(181442) 2.15 Gardening Time 1173423) 
235-610 Love at First Sight (9143201) 
330-650 Take the High Road (6126249) 
625-7.00 Central News (903794) - 1130 
Central Sports Speoal (83997) 1230am 
Coach (2196805) 1155 film: Ifs All 
Happening (601195) 230 ttfqht Heat 
(9035466) 330 Shady Tate (19857485) 


4.05 Bhancpa Beat (601195) 435- 
530 Central JoMnder *92 (9732553) 

GRANADA 

As London except KLOOsm-1025 Famfy 
Theatre (2762997) 1A5pm Home and Away 
(181442) 2.15-2X5 An krAunion to Re- 
member (173423) 610-5X0 Home and 
Away (450)084) 600 Blockbusters (249) 
630-730 Granada Tonight (201) 1130 
Granada Soccer Night (539881) 16Sam 
The Young Rktes (1524621) 130 Donahue 
(403153S) 2.10 OnemAttractions (25621) 
2X0 The Truth About Women (3065553) 
610 Firm GSrnmy the Burglar (595602) 
4X5 About Britain (44544756) 610-530 
Jotifinder (2405718) 

HTV WEST 

As tendon except 10 JXte»-103S Famty 
Theatre (2762997) 1X5pm2.15The Yoimg 
DoQok (181442) 620-330 A Country 
Practice (6T2G249) 610 Home and Away 
(4501084) 600 HTV News (249) 630-7.00 
BkxUHdteis (201) 

TSW 

As tendon except IQjQOaw-tlUS Famty 
Theatre G762997) 2X5pn»-610 The Young 
Doclon (9143201) 618-3X8 Home and 
Away (179607) 6106X0 Trite the FSgh 
Road (4501084) 600 TSW Today (249) 
630-730 Blockbuster, (20)) 1130 Joe 
Cool tee (539881) 1225 m The Ybwtg 
Riders (1S24SZ1) 130 Donritue (9608992) 


2.10 CinemAttractions (7201911) 
2X0 The Truth About Women ©503621) 
610 Fftm GfirTvny, the Burglar (864244) 
4X5 About Bntam (44547843) 610- 
530ao> Jobflnds (8835485) 

TVS 

As London except 6Mpm-640 Home 
and Away (4501084) 600 Coast to Coast 
(249) 630-730 Blockbusters (201) 1130- 
12 j 00 Wdweek Sport (175607) 

TYNE TEES 

As tendon rxn-pt~ IO.OBam-1035 Famty 
Theatre 0762997) 610pm-640 Home and 
Away (4S01084) 600 Northern life (249) 
630-730 Blockbusters 001) 130 Donahue 
(9608992) 2.10 CinemAttraciions 
(7201911) 2X0 The Truth About Women 
(9503621) 610 fikrc Simmy, the Burglar 
(864244) 4X5 About Britan (44547843) 
610-530 JoWmder (8835485) 

ULSTER 

As tendon except I0j00am-103s Famty 
Theatre (2762997) IX 5pm Sons and 
Daughters (181442) 2.1MX5 Who's the 
Bass? (173423) 620330 A Country Prac- 
tice (6126249) 610-5X0 Home and Away 
(4501084) 600 six Tonight (205775) 630 
PoBoe Six (573713) 630-7-00 Bkxkfauoers 
(Ml) 1130 Msdodc (539881) 1235am The 
Young Riders (1524621) 130 Donahue 
(9606992) 2.10 CinemAttractions 
(7201911) 2X0 The Truth About Women 


(9503621) 610 Film: Grimy, the 
Burglar (864244) 4X5 About Bnlam 
(44547843) 61O-530ani Jobs (8835485* 

YORKSHIRE 

As tendon except 10.00am-10.25 Zone* 
(2762997) 2-15pm-2X5 High Days and 
Holidays (173423) 610-640 Heme and 
Away (4501084) 600 Calendar (249; 630- 
730 Biocfcfausters (201 ) 1130 The Equalizer 
098811 1235am The European Tour 
(3971447) 135 Profit 13444447) 1X0 
Holywood Report (8673008) 610 American 
Gadteors (9133282) 600 Quc Nigh: 
(34350) 330 Raw tower (36669) 

SAC 

Starts: 600am C4 Daily (2368256) 93S 
SOI Cartwn (7797317) 935 Star Test 
(9824713) 1035 Frit: Hold my Hand 
(7183249) 11X5 Air Pag (4913256) 1600 
In Search of Scotland's Larder (16442) 
1230pm News Get Smart (1564065) 1.00 
Countdown £88220) 130 Sanply the Best 
(34336) 600 Bush Tucker Man (8171 ) 230 
Fim: Ak Force (45922713) 4X5 The 
Spedafct (6085930) 610 The Oprah 
Winfrey Show 19232075) 6.00 Brookside 
(591) 630 The M ureters (337997) 7.05 
News; Heno 1671978) 8X0 Gnd Y BroWem 
Yw (5607) 830 News (427775) &S5 Swyn Y 
Sanau (98S404) 930 My Dead Dad (1 5201 * 
10X0 Film: toefcy Day ( 192065) 11-50 Out 
(264065) 1230am Animated Shorts 
(161246 6) 


RADIO 3 


6 _55am Weather 

7.00 On Air Chris de Souza with 
news, weather and previews 
ind music by Beethoven, List 
Elqar and Dukas 

9.00 Composers of the Week. 
Glazunov and Glifere: The 
1890s Glazunov (Concert 
Wattz No 1 in D, Op 47: Suisse 
Romande Orchestra under 
Ernest Ansermet Six songs, 

Op 60; Margaret Cable, 
mezzo, Christopher Keyte. 
bar, Christopher Coy, piano; 
String Quartet No 4 in A 
minor. Op 64: Shostakovich 
Quartet) 

10.00 Midweek Choice with Susan 
Sharpe. Pergolesi (STabat 
Mater, mvts J -6: Academy of 
Ancient Music under 
Christopher Hogwood with 
Emma ttrfcby, soprano. James 
Bowman, countertenor), 

1030 Haydn (Symphony No 4 
in D: Phimarmonia Hunqartca 
under Antal Dorati), 1034 
Jana&ek tin the Mtsc Mikhail 
Rudy, piano); 1050 Elgar (Sea 
Pictures: Janet Baker, mezzo); 
11.15 Marrinil (Nonet 
Darlington Ensemble); 11-34 
Per^Qtesi (Stabat mater, mvts 

11.55 Mozart The Netherlands 

Chamber Choir and Orchestra 
of the ISth Century under 
Frans Bruqgen with Konrad 
Humeter. flute. Marinella 
Pennkthi. soprano, Catherine 
Patnasz, contralto, Zeger 
Vandersteene, Tenor, felle 
Draijer, bass, perform 
Symphony No 32 in G. K31S; 
Flute Concerto in G, 1313; 
Mass m C, K317. Coronation 

1.00pm News 

1.05 Lars Vogt The pianist plays 
Brahms (Four KJavierstucke, 

Op 1 19); Schubert (Sonata in 
G. D394) Ir) 

2J0 Gemini Mary WieqokJ, 

soprano, Will steato, flute, Ian 
Mitchell, darinet. Ann Moffefc, 
violin, Marilyn Sansom, cello, 
and Andrew Ball, piano, under 
Martyn Srabbfrts, perform 
Grainger (Died ter Lave; 
Colonial Song); tves (LatqoV, 
Rnnissy (B»iumbirr); Weir 
(Sketches from a Bagpiper's 
Album!; Ingoldsby (three 
Small Litanies, fir^t broadcast) 

2-45 Ulster Orchestra under 
Adrian Leaper performs 
Schumann (Overture: 


Manfred); Faur4 (Suite: feteas 
et Mgtisande); Schumann, 
orch Shostakovich (Cello 
Concerto in A minor with 
Alexander BaiSie) (r) 

3X0 Late Baroque Sonatas: 
Elizabeth Waltfisch, vioJm. 
Richard Tunnidiffe, ceBo. and 
Paul Nicholson, harpsichord 
and organ, perform Corelli - 
(Sonata in G minor. Op 5 No 
5); Geminiani (Sonata in E 
minor. Op 1 No 3) 

4*00 Choral Evensong live from 
Edington Rrtory Church 
5 M in Tune: presented by Andrew 
Green with guest Crispian 
Steele-Perkins. trumpeter. The 
progrtenme indudes news, 
weather, travel, hearfines 
from the arts and a look at 
the year's Three Chars 
Festival 

730 Proms 1992 five from the 
Albert HaB. The St Petersburg 
Philharmonic under Yuri 
Temirtcanov in the second of 
the orchestra's Prom 
performances indudes music ’ 
inspired by the poetry of Lord 
Byron. Berttaz (Overture: The 
Corsair): Sibefcus (VioGn 
Concerto in 0 minor with 
Maxim Vengerov, 18 years 
old, making his Prom debut). 

In the interval at 8.15 Friday 
Night in St Petersburg: Oily 
Bartow goes on the town with 
puma 1st Valera Katsuba to 
find ouj how Russia’s new 
freedom has liberated the 
young. The concert continues 
at 835 with Tchaikovsky 
(Manfred Symphony) 

9A5 What's the Big Idea? 
Nationalism: Tne Bent Twig 
Myth. Brian Magee looks at 
nationality, whldi can be a 
sense of belonging but often 
becomes a sense of owning 
others, and the theory ancT 
practice of international 
peace-keeping (r) 

1030 Beaux Arts Trio: Menahem 
ftessler. piano. Isidore Cohen, 
woftn, and Peter WBey, cello, 
perform Haydn (Piano Trio in 
D minor. HXV 23); Beethoven 
(Piano Trio in 6 flat. Op 70 NO 
2)(r) 

1130 News 

1135-1235 Composers of the 
Week: Rameau (Castor et 
Pollux: Overture and Prologue 
Dardanur Overture; Prologue 
a 5) (r) 


Act 4; Chaconne, Act 1 


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535 Shipping Forecast 
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Weather 6.10 Farming Ti 


635 Prayer for the Day 631 
Today ind 630, 730. 730. 
830, B30 News 6A5 Business 
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735. 835 Sports News 7X5 
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Manchester Guanfiai Man: 
Too Good to Be True 839 
Weather 930 News 
9-05 )n the Psychiatrist's Chair 
Dr Anthony Clare talks to 
barrister Jcftm TsMor about the 
most significant influences on 
his life before and after Ws 
failure to become the first 
Wade Tory MPfe) 

9X5 Idle Thoughts with John 
Walters^ 

10JM News; Keep It Clean (FM 
only): Opening Bare. Laurence 
Abler reveals the hype behind 


10-00 craay Service (LW onty) 

10.15 The Bibte(LW only) 

Revelation read by John 

Gielgud (4 of 6) 

1030 Woman's Hour discusses 
irantolant donors interviews 
the actress, Claire Dowie; asks 
Coteen Notan and others what 
it's like to be the baby of the 
famuy; and talks to Cynthia 
Codsum about the sexual 
politics of the microwave. Ind 
11X0 News 

1130 Gardeners' Question Time 

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12.00 You and Yours with Robin 
McAuley 

U2Sjpm bi Search of RtiBiaOo by 
Dolores Paia. A tragic love 
stoty is played out fc) (r) 1235 
Weather 

1JJO The World at One 
1X0 The Archers (s) (r) 135 


Shipping 
230 News; Who 

Sx stories of i 


The Hero? 

or 


group heroism. Never Mind, l 
Slopped My Train! In 1898. 
after a boiler emiosion, a’ 
Great Western Railway driver 
and fireman succeeded in 
saving the lives of their 
passengers. Martin Sonefl 
recreates toe background to 
this story 

2X7 Msstons Improbable: Martin 
Wamwriqht reflects on 
historical characters united by 


sm verging _ 

obsession. Charles Wilson 
Peale, inventor extraordinaire, 
designed America's first 

fate^^’mS'toe^his hand 
at taxidermy by preserving 
Benjamin Franklm's cat 

3.00 News; Four Seasons: Phil 
Smith records the impact of 
summer on everyday life 

3X2 Profile: Tom Jaoson used to 
be toe postmen’s trade union 
leader. Now he sells second- 
hand cookery books by mail 
order 

4.00 News 4.05 Kaleidoscope: 

examines a series of films at 
the British film Institute of 
new (firectorc working in the 
medium; reviews William 
Kennedy’s novel Very Old 
Banes; and talks to the opera 
singer John Rawnsley 

4X5 Short Story: Leaving by M G 
Vassani read by Anthony Zaki 

5X0 PM 530 Shipping 535 
weather 

6-00 She O'clock News 

630 Brain of Brains 1992: A 

speed invitation chaHenqe 
match 

7.00 News 7X5 The Ardiers (5) 

730 Costing the Earth (r) 

7X5 Medicine Now (r) 

8.15 Age to Age (r) 

8X5 In Business: Britain on the 
Brink — A Survivor's Guide. 
Three case histories and a 
panel of experts take a long 
look at the current agony of 
British busness. Presented by 
Peter Day 

9.15 Kaleidoscope W 

9X5 The Financial World Tonight 
(3939 Weather 
10-00 The World Tonight with 
Alexander MacLeod (5) 

1045 A Book at Bedtime: Seventy 
Years a Showman 
11.00 looking Forward to toe 
Past Robert Sooth dips into 
the past for a none-too- 
serious historical chat with 
Denis Healey. Martin Young. 
Artemis Cooper and Anna 
Raeburn (s) (r) 

hStstiShlrn quiz (s) (r) 
1230-12X3am News ind 1237 
Weather 1233 Shippinq 
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